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Monica Ali
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Monica Ali

Monica Ali has been named by Granta as one of the twenty best young British novelists. She is the author of In the Kitchen, Alentejo Blue, and Brick Lane, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

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Untold Story will be released on July 05, 2012 in Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Jul 05, 2012
Untold Story is now available in Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Jul 05, 2012
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Dec 18, 2011
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Stressed Rach, April 26, 2013
...loved this book’ Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress ‘[Elif Shafak] joins writers such as Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Aamer Hussein, Andrea Levy, Hanan al-Shakyh and Leila Aboulela, who offer us fictional glimpses of London’s...
World News Network, April 20, 2013
...20 "best young British novelists" with great fanfare. Having accurately predicted the success of fledgling authors such as Monica Ali, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Adam Thirlwell (and, to a lesser extent Philip Hensher and Jeanette Winterson, who were quite...
Woman & Home, April 17, 2013
...first released in 1983, reads like a who's who of the literary world. Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Monica Ali, Ian McEwan, Pat Barker and Jeanette Winterston were all tipped for success by Granta before becoming household names. This year's Granta List...
Guardian.co.uk, April 16, 2013
...list, though perhaps not so glorious, also hoovered up much of the talent that was around – including Monica Ali, Nicola Barker, Rachel Cusk, Philip Hensher, Hari Kunzru, David Mitchell, Andrew O'Hagan, David Peace, Zadie Smith, Alan Warner and Sarah...
Guardian.co.uk, April 15, 2013
...and it was the turn of Jeanette Winterson and Alan Hollinghurst. In 2003, the list included Sarah Waters, Monica Ali and Zadie Smith. Now the literary magazine has released its 2013 list, and for the first time there is a majority of women. It is also...
Las Cruces Sun-News, April 15, 2013
...author Louis de Bernieres. Smith and Thirlwell both appeared on the 2003 list, along with "Brick Lane" writer Monica Ali and "Cloud Atlas" author David Mitchell. Jonathan Ruppin, web editor for the Foyles bookstore chain, said the 2013 selection was...
Guardian.co.uk, April 15, 2013
...our insultingly hackneyed jacket Look: multicoloured cover resembling gallery art Example: Taiye Selasi Also worn by: Zadie Smith, Monica Ali What it says: we're convinced novel's vibrant multiculturalism will make other fiction seem grey and stale...
The List, May 10, 2013
...of ‘the village at the end of the world’. For this documentary, director Sarah Gavron (who previously adapted Monica Ali’s book Brick Lane) and her husband and cinematographer David Katznelson have filmed a year in the life of the isolated village,...
St Louis News.net, May 9, 2013
...documentary by film-maker Sarah Gavron, her first film since the adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane six years ago. It follows a year in the life of Niaqornat, a remote village in north-western Greenland; it's an Inuit fishing community of...
Chicago News.Net, May 9, 2013
...documentary by film-maker Sarah Gavron, her first film since the adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane six years ago. It follows a year in the life of Niaqornat, a remote village in north-western Greenland; it's an Inuit fishing community of...
New Delhi News.Net, May 9, 2013
...documentary by film-maker Sarah Gavron, her first film since the adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane six years ago. It follows a year in the life of Niaqornat, a remote village in north-western Greenland; it's an Inuit fishing community of...
Mumbai News.Net, May 9, 2013
...documentary by film-maker Sarah Gavron, her first film since the adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane six years ago. It follows a year in the life of Niaqornat, a remote village in north-western Greenland; it's an Inuit fishing community of...
Calcutta News.Net, May 9, 2013
...documentary by film-maker Sarah Gavron, her first film since the adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane six years ago. It follows a year in the life of Niaqornat, a remote village in north-western Greenland; it's an Inuit fishing community of...
Kazakhstan News, May 9, 2013
...documentary by film-maker Sarah Gavron, her first film since the adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane six years ago. It follows a year in the life of Niaqornat, a remote village in north-western Greenland; it's an Inuit fishing community of...