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An Evening with Laila Lalami

Culturally Speaking Author Series

Join us as we welcome author Laila Lalami, author of The Dream Hotel. Registration recommended.

Event Timeline

6:00pm-6:45pm- Author Talk

6:45pm-7:00pm- Q & A

7:00pm-8:00pm- Book Signing*

*Book sales provided by Brain Lair Books. Copies of Laila's works will be available for purchase.

Find copies of Laila's works in our library catalog.

Laila Lalami is the author of six books, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston / Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a national bestseller, won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times.  She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.  She lives in Los Angeles.  Her new novel, The Dream Hotel, was published in March 2025.

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