![]() ![]() ![]() It was awarded the Audience Choice Award for Best Director at the IFFCA (2014). Dhalla’s short film, Embracewhich he wrote, produced and directed, was the first ever dramatization of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. ![]() Times as “an achievement” and by Library Journal as “brilliant.” In 2008, Dhalla adapted and produced his novel into the motion picture The Odewhich premiered at Outfest.ĭhalla’s second novel, The Exiles(formerly published as The Two Krishnas) was praised as “exquisite” by best-selling author Lisa See and “riveting” by LGBTQ lit icon, Andrew Holleran. It was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award (2012). ![]() Los Angeles-based author-filmmaker, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla was born in Kenya where he sold his first article to a national magazine, VIVA at age 13. He has since written for various national magazines and his literary/film work have been celebrated at MIT (2004), the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (2009) and at the prestigious Master’s Tea at Yale University (2011).ĭhalla’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Ode to Lata (2002) was hailed by the L.A. ![]()
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