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Monica Ali: A Life in Pictures

Award-winning author Monica Ali.
A main street in Bolton, Ali’s hometown after she moved from Dhaka.
Ali graduated from Wadham College, Oxford University with a degree in PPE.
Monica Ali with her two children, Shumi and Felix.
The book cover for Ali’s first novel, Brick Lane.
A still from the film adaptation of Ali’s novel.
Ali’s second novel, Alentejo Blue, was set in this idyllic Portuguese town where Ali owns a holiday home.
Book cover for Ali’s third novel, In the Kitchen.
Ali speaks at the Oxford Union Society “People who shape our world” on “immigration of good for Britain”.