Ailah Ahmed is Publishing Director of Little, Brown/Abacus and Virago. She recently acquired and published Less by Andrew Sean Greer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018, An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2020. she also publishes fiction in translation – recently from Japanese, Korean, Greenlandic and German.
