Laila Lalami

Marokko · Schriftsteller · Geboren 1968 · Alter 58

Laila Lalami wird in 19 Sprachen etwa 69 Mal am Tag gelesen.

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Laila Lalami (arabisch ليلى العلمي, DMG Lailạ̄ l-ʿAlamī, * 1968 in Rabat, Marokko) ist eine marokkanisch-US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin.

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2019“There’s a disconnect between how people imagine their families and how families are in real life.”Eigene WorteOn her novel The Other Americans in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” in The Nation (2019 Apr 23)Die ganze Aussage lesen

“When you move into a new place, it does involve a refashioning of the self.”Eigene WorteOn fashioning a new sense of self in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” in The Nation (2019 Apr 23)Die ganze Aussage lesen

“(What moves you most in a work of literature?) I’m moved by voices that ring so true that they make me feel kinship with characters who are completely different from me.”Eigene Wortewith New York Times (2019)Die ganze Aussage lesen

“books hold so many memories of the times and places in which I’ve read them.”Eigene Wortewith New York Times (2019)Die ganze Aussage lesen

2016Guggenheim FellowshipAuszeichnung2015American Book AwardsAuszeichnung2014“A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.”Eigene WorteThe Moor's Account (2014)Die ganze Aussage lesen

“Nothing new has ever happened to a son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories. (p52)”Eigene WorteThe Moor's Account (2014)Die ganze Aussage lesen

1968Geboren24. Februar 1968

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There’s a disconnect between how people imagine their families and how families are in real life.
2019, On her novel The Other Americans in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” in The Nation (2019 Apr 23), Eigene Worte
When you move into a new place, it does involve a refashioning of the self.
2019, On fashioning a new sense of self in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” in The Nation (2019 Apr 23), Eigene Worte
I think of history as a dialogue with the present, so whenever I’m puzzled by the turn of current events - which is all too often these days - I look to the past for context.
2019, with New York Times (2019), Eigene Worte