Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 in Cairo, to an Egyptian mother and a Sudanese father, and grew up in Khartoum, where she attended the American school and then a convent school. A graduate in economics of the University of Khartoum in 1985, she then studied statistics at the London School of Economics, settled in Scotland in 1990 and began writing there. A winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, she has published six novels, short stories and radio plays, and in 2025 received the PEN Pinter Prize.

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• NovelThe TranslatorLeila Aboulela · 1999Literature