![]() ![]() According to Lalami, all the children's books she read as a child were written in French, and she began to write her own stories in French. She spoke Moroccan Arabic at home, and learned Standard Arabic and French in elementary school. Lalami was born in a working-class family in Rabat, Morocco. ![]() In 2015 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel The Moor's Account (2014), about Estevanico, which received strong critical praise and won several other awards. Her first novel, composed of linked stories, was published in 2005. She began publishing her writing in 1996. In 1992 Lalami moved to the United States, where she completed a PhD in linguistics at the University of Southern California. After earning her Licence de lettres degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she earned an MA in linguistics. Laila Lalami ( Arabic: ليلى العلمي, born 1968) is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. ![]()
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