# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laila-lalami
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:34:19.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laila-lalami"
name: "Laila Lalami"
slug: "laila-lalami"
description: "Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her licence ès lettres degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she earned an MA in linguistics."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laila_lalami_1120007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.79
  momentum:             0.4127579737335835
  historical:           18.47992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/LailaLalami"
    handle:    "LailaLalami"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6895282/"
    handle:    "nm6895282"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://lailalalami.com/about/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A"
    title: "ليلى العلمي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "ليلى العلمى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لیلا لعلمی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "لیلا العلمی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AC%D5%A1_%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%AB"
    title: "Լայլա Լալամի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9F"
    title: "レイラ・ララミ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Лалами, Лайла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96"
    title: "Лайла Лаламі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%B0_%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "لیلیٰ لعلمی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1165426"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1659490"
    title: "Laila Lalami"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump