![]() ![]() “Brick Lane” was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in the year 2003. “Brick Lane” was adapted into a movie of the same name, and released in 2007. Her first thing she pitched got accepted by the BBC, she thought it’d be easy, but then it never got made. She sank her teeth into learning how to write scripts. ![]() She found she was depressed when she wasn’t writing and the depression fed into not being able to write, it was a downward spiral. A healthy dose of self doubt is good for any writer, yet there’s also got to be self belief. Monica went through a ten year period of deciding she was not going to write, having experienced a full loss of confidence. It took ten years for “Love Marriage” to be released. She attended Bolton School and then studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford. Her dad’s originally from the district of Mymensingh. When she was three, her family moved to Bolton, England. Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) on Octoto an English mom and a Bangladeshi dad. ![]()
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