UND Writers Conference Reading: Laila Lalami

Thursday, October 1, 2020 7 pm

Cost: Free Event

**2019 National Book Award Finalist**
**2015 Pulitzer Prize Finalist**

Author of one of the most anticipated works of 2019 AND 2020!

Don't miss out on this unique experience to hear Laila Lalami read from her award nominated work.

Free & Open to the public!

About the author:

Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, a best-of-2019 selection from NPR, Time, and Kirkus, and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She just released a collection of essays Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a full professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
Learn more at https://lailalalami.com/

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