![]() ![]() She is also the author of five novels: The Translator (1999) Minaret (2005), which tells the story of Najwa, an aristocratic Sudanese woman forced into exile in Britain Lyrics Alley (2010), set in 1950s Sudan and inspired by the life of her uncle - a poet and songwriter – The Kindness of Enemies (2015) and Bird Summons (2019).īBC Radio 4 broadcast a five-part adaptation of The Translator in 2002, and a dramatisation of 'The Museum'. A collection of short stories, Coloured Lights, was published in 2001, followed by a second, Elsewhere, Home, in 2018, which won the award for Saltire Society's Fiction Book of the Year 2018. ![]() ![]() She has had several short stories published in anthologies and broadcast on radio, and one of her short stories, ‘The Museum’, won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2000. She worked as a part-time Research Assistant while starting to write. She studied for a degree in Economics at Khartoum University, then moved to England to obtain a Masters degree in Statistics at the London School of Economics. Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 in Cairo and grew up in Khartoum. ![]()
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