Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Joyce Carol Oates Prize | 2018 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Laila Lalami's novel imagines the first-person narrative of Estebanico, an enslaved Moroccan man who was among the four survivors of the disastrous 1527 expedition to Florida. Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.
About the Author
Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist and cultural critic, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Born in Rabat, Morocco, she studied English Literature at Mohammed V University before moving to the United States, where she earned a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA. The Moor's Account (2014) won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was the first novel by a Moroccan-American author to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Read more →
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