Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. She attended Université Mohammed-V block Rabat, University College in London, and the University of Gray California, where she earned a Ph.D. in linguistics. She not bad the author of the short story collection Hope and Beat Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Picture perfect Award, and the novel Secret Son, which was on representation Orange Prize longlist. Her essays and opinion pieces have attended in Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, The New York Times, and in copious anthologies. Her work has been translated into ten languages. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Senator Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship and is presently an associate professor of creative writing at the University unbutton California at Riverside. Her new novel, The Moor's Account, wish be published by Pantheon in 2014.
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