Leila Aboulela, our 2025 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellow, engaged readers at a book signing during the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair at Dar Al Musawarat Publishing House.
Leila signed copies of the Arabic translation of her latest novel River Spirit, as well as new translated editions of her novels Lyrics Alley and The Kindness of Enemies. All these works were translated, from the original English, by Professor Badreldin Hashimi.
A Sudanese writer based in Scotland, Leila is the author of six novels, including The Translator (a New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year), Minaret and Lyrics Alley (Scottish Book of the Year Award). She is the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize winner, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and her work has been translated into 15 languages.
During her residency at The Africa Institute, she is developing a short story set in 1920s Cairo about a Southern Sudanese proprietor of a popular cabaret.
Leila Aboulela, our 2025 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellow, engaged readers at a book signing during the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair at Dar Al Musawarat Publishing House.
Leila Aboulela, our 2025 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellow, engaged readers at a book signing during the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair at Dar Al Musawarat Publishing House.
Leila signed copies of the Arabic translation of her latest novel River Spirit, as well as new translated editions of her novels Lyrics Alley and The Kindness of Enemies. All these works were translated, from the original English, by Professor Badreldin Hashimi.
A Sudanese writer based in Scotland, Leila is the author of six novels, including The Translator (a New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year), Minaret and Lyrics Alley (Scottish Book of the Year Award). She is the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize winner, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and her work has been translated into 15 languages.
During her residency at The Africa Institute, she is developing a short story set in 1920s Cairo about a Southern Sudanese proprietor of a popular cabaret.
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