Known as the 'African Booker', the $15,000 (£9,000) prize is awarded to a short story published in English by an African writer whose work reflects African sensibilities.
Laila Lalami, a Moroccan-born author, has been nominated for The Fanatic, a chapter from her novel Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. The book tells of four Moroccans who cross the straits of Gibraltar on a lifeboat in order to emigrate to Spain. According to Lalami, who now lives in Oregon and is the editor of the literary blog Moorishgirl.com, the story was inspired by an article she read in Le Monde in 2001 about 15 Moroccan immigrants who drowned while crossing the straits of Gibraltar in a fishing boat.
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2 comments:
Having chosen to write ONLY about the Northern African,it seems you are one of those Asians who believe that Morrocco and Egypt is in Asia---lol---
What gives you the impression that I think that Morocco and Egypt are in Asia? And BTW, in my blog, I write about writing in general, covering the whole world.
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