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Monica Ali

The End of the Affair

3.90 avg rating — 67,478 ratings — published 1951 — 245 editions

Brick Lane

3.45 avg rating — 34,803 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions

Love Marriage

3.90 avg rating — 18,139 ratings — published 2022 — 28 editions

Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You
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4.23 avg rating — 3,486 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions

The Painter of Signs
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3.65 avg rating — 2,529 ratings — published 1976 — 40 editions

Untold Story

2.95 avg rating — 2,553 ratings — published 2011 — 43 editions

In the Kitchen

2.77 avg rating — 2,121 ratings — published 2009 — 49 editions

Alentejo Blue

2.76 avg rating — 1,271 ratings — published 2006 — 48 editions

Il romanzo di Lady D

3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions

Sept mers et treize rivières

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

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BIOGRAPHY

Monica Ali is a bestselling writer whose work has been translated into 26 languages. She is the author of five books: Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen, Untold Story and Love Marriage.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2003 was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She has been nominated for, amongst others, the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and in the U.S. has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, New York, where she was a visiting Professor, and from 2015 to 2018 she was Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Surrey.

Brick Lane was turned into feature film produced by Film Four, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. Monica is currently adapting her fifth novel, Love Marriage, for television in conjunction with New Pictures.

Monica is Patron of Hopscotch Women’

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FAQs

+ Where are you really from?

I was born in Dhaka, East Pakistan, in 1967 and came to the UK at the age of three, during the civil war that led to the creation of Bangladesh. My mother is English and my father is Bengali. I grew up in Bolton. I left Bolton when I was eighteen to go to university, and since graduating I have lived in London. I’d describe myself as British, of Bangladeshi and English heritage, and as a Londoner.

You can read more about my life here.

+ Did you always want to be a writer?

When I was growing up, I always had my head in a book. Novels were an escape (from a tense household, from loneliness); they were my only means of travel; they schooled me in ways that school couldn’t. People talk of ‘losing yourself’ in a novel. As an adolescent reader that’s exactly what I was often longing – and able – to do. The more I disappeared the better. I think that’s why I write now, to have that experience of immersing myself in another perspective on life. But I didn’t consider, back then, that I might be able to write a novel. If people like me got novels pub