Laila Lalami: 2016 National Book Festival

Laila Lalami discusses "The Moor's Account" with Bilal Qureshi from NPR at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Biography: Laila Lalami is an award-winning novelist, writer and professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. Her novels include "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits," "Secret Son" and her most recent book "The Moor's Account" , a Pulitzer Prize finalist. "The Moor's Account" is the imagined memoir of the first black explorer of America, Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico, who is the slave of a Spanish conquistador on an expedition to Florida, but after a year becomes one of only four remaining crew members and remakes himself as a healer and storyteller. Lalami has received an American Book Award, an Arab American Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, the Guardian, the New York Times and in various anthologies. Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain and the United States.

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