Lale Gul was born in 1997 in Amsterdam and is a writer and columnist for the Dutch newspaper Het Parool. Until the age of seventeen, she attended a Koranic school run by the Milli Gorus Foundation at the weekends, then studied Dutch Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her autobiographical debut novel I Will Live has sold over 325,000 copies in the Netherlands and she has won numerous prizes, including the NS Publieksprijs, the Euregio Literature Prize, the Pim Fortuyn Prize and Dutchman of the Year.
I Will Live is an electrifying book, alive with the far ranging effects of following the clarion call to freedom. Gul's is a singular voice, one demanding our fullest attention -- Ali Millar, author of The Last Days and Ava Anna Ada