![]() ![]() The five-part radio serialization of her 1999 novel The Translator was short-listed for the Race In the Media Award (RIMA). BBC Radio has adapted her work extensively and broadcast a number of her plays, including The Insider, The Mystic Life and the historical drama The Lion of Chechnya. Aboulela’s works have been included in publications such as Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Washington Post and The Guardian. ![]() Her most popular novels, Minaret (2005) and The Translator (1999) both feature the stories of Muslim women in the UK and were long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Orange Prize. Until 2023, Aboulela has published six novels and several short stories, which have been translated into fifteen languages. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and moved to Scotland in 1990 where she began her literary career. ![]() Leila Fuad Aboulela (Arabic:ليلى فؤاد ابوالعلا born 1964) is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright of Sudanese origin based in Aberdeen, Scotland. University of Khartoum and London School of EconomicsĬaine Prize for African Writing Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards Saltire Fiction Book of the Year ![]()
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