Monica Ali’s latest novel is Love Marriage. The organisation became independent in 1998 and continues to empower women and girls to achieve their full potential. Monica is Patron of Hopscotch Women’s Centre, a charity that was originally set up by Save the Children to support ethnic minority families who had come to join their partners in the UK. Monica is currently adapting her fifth novel, Love Marriage, for television in conjunction with New Pictures. 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.īrick Lane was turned into feature film produced by Film Four, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was named one of the 20 best young British novelists under 40. She has been nominated for, amongst others, the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and in the U.S. Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. 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 is the author of five books: Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen, Untold Story and Love Marriage. Monica Ali is a bestselling writer whose work has been translated into 26 languages.
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