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  <name><![CDATA[Monica Ali]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Monica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin. She is the author of Brick Lane, her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003. Ali was voted Granta's Best of Young British Novelists on the basis of the unpublished manuscript.

-Wikipedia
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  <title><![CDATA[Brick Lane: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Alentejo Blue: Fiction]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Monica Ali]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[In the Kitchen: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Monica Ali]]></name>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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