Monica Ali (born October 20, 1967) is the author of Brick Lane, her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003. Image File history File links MonicaAli. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Brick Lane is a street in the East End of London, site of a Sunday market, heart of the citys Bangladeshi community, former heart of the citys Jewish community, and before that, of its Huguenot community. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Nahid Sikander, also often known as the Booker Prize, is one of the worlds most prestigious literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in the... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh to Bangladeshi and English parents, moving to England at the age of three. She grew up in Bolton, Northern England near Manchester and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford. Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bangla: ঢাকা Ḍhākā), population 12,560,000[1] (2005 UN projection for statistical metropolitan area), is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid... Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is a popular interdisciplinary degree which combines study from the three eponymous disciplines. ... Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Brick Lane follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to Tower Hamlets in London at the age of 18 — her English consisting of "sorry" and "thank you" — to marry an older man, Chanu, described by The Observer as "one of the novel's foremost miracles: twice her age, with a face like a frog, a tendency to quote Hume and the boundless doomed optimism of the self-improvement junkie, he is both exasperating and, to the reader at least, enormously loveable. [1] The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is the London borough to the east of the City of London, north of the River Thames in East London. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... According to many religions, a miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning something wonderful, is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the operations of the ordinary course of Nature are overruled, suspended, or modified. ... Distribution of frogs (in black) Suborders Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia - List of Anuran families A frog is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning tail-less from Greek an-, without + oura, tail). ... David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776)[1] was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian who was one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. ... Half full or half empty? Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Optimism Optimism, the opposite of pessimism, exemplifies a lifeview where one looks upon the world as a positive place. ... A junkie (or junky) is a heroin addict. ...

Ali was voted Granta's Best of Young British Novelists on the basis of the unpublished manuscript of Brick Lane. Granta 37, published September 1991 Granta is a literary magazine which publishes new writing — fiction, personal history, reportage and investigative journalism — four times a year. ...

The novel caused controversy within the Bangladeshi Sylheti community residing in the UK owing to it's negative portrayal of Sylhetis. Shah Jalal Mazar (Tomb) Sylhet is a major city in north-eastern Bangladesh. ...

She lives in south London with her husband, Simon, a management consultant, and their two children, Felix and Shumi. South London is the area of Greater London south of the River Thames. ... Management consulting is the process of helping companies to improve or transform themselves. ...

She opposes the British government's attempt to introduce The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill, something she writes about in her contribution to Free Expression Is No Offence, a collection of essays published by Penguin in November 2005.

Further reading

• Ali, Monica. Brick Lane. Doubleday, 2003.is een eikel

References

• "Ali's in Wonderland" by Harriet Lane, The Observer, June 1, 2003
• "Full of East End promise" by Geraldine Bedell, The Observer, June 15, 2003

External links

• Monica Ali at www.contemporarywriters.com
• Monica Ali at the Internet Book List