She is fluent in seven languages (English, French, Persian, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese) and is the recipient of the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded each year by the Center for Fiction.
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Up until the end of 2011, she also served on the advisory board of The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto of South Africa.
Lila Downs | Lila | Azam Jah | Mughal-e-Azam | Quaid-i-Azam University | Quaid-e-Azam | Ghulam Azam | Azam Jah of the Carnatic | Andi Lila | Ubaid Azam Azmi | Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam | Quaid-e-Azam's letter to Mrs Ali | Nasser Azam | Lila T. Abaunza | Lila Lee | Lila Kari | Lila (Hinduism) | Lila Garrett | Lila: An Inquiry into Morals | Lila Ammons | Hammad Azam | Azam |