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Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American author whose four works of fiction have been nominated and/or awarded some of the world’s top literary prizes.

Lalami was born in 1968 in Rabat, Morocco and grew up in a household full of books, saying that though her parents were not college-educated, they were voracious readers who passed this love down to their daughter. Lalami has a Licence ès Lettres in English from Université Mohammed-V, a Master of Arts degree in Linguistics from University College,...

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