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Title

  • Laila Lalami: 2019 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Laila Lalami discussed "The Other Americans" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2019-08-31.

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Laila Lalami.
  • -  Recorded on 2019-08-31.
  • -  Laila Lalami was born in Rabat, Morocco and educated in Morocco, Great Britain and the United States. She is the author of the novels "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits," which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; "Secret Sons," which was on the Orange Prize longlist; and "The Moor's Account," which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper's, The Guardian and The New York Times. Lalami is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. Her new novel is "The Other Americans."

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  • 1 online resource

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  • 2024696581

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  • video
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  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Laila Lalami:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-31, 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696581/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2019) Laila Lalami:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-31. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696581/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Laila Lalami:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-31, 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024696581/>.