# Leïla Slimani

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Tim Spector and Tatty Macleod

THE COUNTRY OF OTHERS by Leïla Slimani, chosen by Tatty Macleod THE MAN WHO ATE EVERYTHING by Jeffrey Steingarten, chosen by Tim Spector ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey, chosen by Harriett Gilbert Comedian Tatty Macleod chooses a novel by French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, the first volume of a new t…

Leïla Slimani

Leïla Slimani is a French-Moroccan writer. Born in Rabat, Morocco, she moved to Paris aged seventeen to study media and journalism at Sciences Po.  She is the author of seven books published in the English language. Her debut Adèle was published in 2014, followed by Lullaby, which made Slimani the…

French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani on feminism & freedom

Award-winning writer Leïla Slimani grew up in Morocco, where women were second-class citizens, but inside her home and with her family, she was free to speak her mind. Her mother, a doctor, pushed her to go to France to study. Slimani spoke with Terry Gross about her trilogy of novels inspired by h…

Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani

Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards this year, for two very different roles: in the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons and in the final season of HBO's Euphoria. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about the transition from dramatic roles to comedy, and guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! for a week. …

Do We Owe Our Parents More Than a Weekly Call?

Do adult children owe their parents daily contact, hands-on care, and the chance to stay in the homes they love, or is that expectation unfair to the lives their children are trying to build? In this episode of Transatlantic Bookmarks, Ksenija Popovic and Sue Graham Johnston use Anne Tyler’s A Spoo…

On Mark Brandi's The Rip, Dervla McTiernan's The Scholar, Leïla Slimani's Adèle and Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds

Crime fiction specialist Sue Turnbull and reviewer Nicole Abadee join Kate and Cassie as they ponder, among other things, whether liking a character (or not) impacts a reader's sense of literary merit.

Rodney Hall's A Stolen Season, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby, Imogen Hermes Gowar's The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and Natasha Lester's bookshelf that made her

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by novelist Sandra Leigh Price and political scientist Shaun Crowe as they discuss Rodney Hall's A Stolen Season, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby, Imogen Hermes Gowar's The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, and Natasha Lester reveals the fashion-filled bookshelf that made …

In the Studio: Leïla Slimani takes on Tolstoy

Prix Goncourt-winning writer Leïla Slimani this year completed a trilogy of novels; an era-spanning epic family saga set in Morocco, which concludes with the semi-autobiographical I'll Take The Fire. Never one to stay in her comfort zone and compelled to write, she has now embarked on her very firs…