Laila Lalami
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Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. She is the author of the short story collection Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and the novels Secret Son and The Moor's Account. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in several publications including the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, vis mere The Nation, The Guardian, and The New York Times. She is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Author Laila Lalami at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44626510
Værker af Laila Lalami
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami (September 23,2014) 5 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction (2004) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 26 eksemplarer
Jungfrau and other short stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 7th Annual Collection (2007) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1968
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Morocco
USA - Fødested
- Rabat, Morocco
- Bopæl
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Uddannelse
- Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
University College London
University of Southern California - Erhverv
- essayist
author
Associate Professor of Creative Writing - Organisationer
- University of California, Riverside
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Fulbright Fellowship
British Council fellowship
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