Monica Ali

Standard Name: Ali, Monica

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence	Naomi Alderman	NA says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith 's White Teeth, Monica Ali 's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson 's Oranges...

Timeline

2 June 2003

British Asian writer Monica Ali published her first novel, Brick Lane, to resounding success.

Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Mullan, John. “Public faces and inner spaces”. The Guardian, 12 June 2004, p. Review 32.

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Smith, David, correspondent. “’It’s your shout, then we can start discussing V S Naipaul’”. The Observer, 15 Aug. 2004, p. 7.

O’Neill, Sean. “Asian leaders warn of violence against Brick Lane film”. Times, 22 July 2006, p. 28.

Lewis, Paul. “’You sanctimonious philistine’—Rushdie v Greer, the sequel”. The Guardian, 29 July 2006, p. 11.

Walter, Natasha. “The book burners do not speak for all of Brick Lane”. The Guardian, 1 Aug. 2006, p. 29.

Early 2004

The Richard and Judy Book Club was launched in Britain as a weekly television programme on Channel 4 , taking as its model the bookclub of Oprah Winfrey in the USA.

Jeffries, Stuart. “The booksellers”. Guardian Unlimited, 26 Feb. 2004.

H. S.,. “A Week in Books”. The Guardian, 14 June 2008, p. Review 5.

Review 5

June 2006

Monica Ali published her second novel, Alentejo Blue, which is set in a village called Mamarrosa in Alentejo province, Portugal, and whose characters are both Portuguese and English.

Lowry, Elizabeth. “Seductive Slide into Despair”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2006, pp. 33-4.

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