Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela (* 1964 in Cairo , Arabic القاهرة, ' ليلى ابوالعلا' ) is a Sudanese writer.

Leila Aboulela (2010)

Life

Leila Aboulela is the daughter of an Egyptian and a Sudanese. She was born in Cairo in 1964 and came to Khartoum when she was six weeks old , where she lived until 1987. She attended the Khartoum American School , where she learned English, and studied economics at the University of Khartoum . She earned an M.Phil. from the London School of Economics and Political Science .

She is married and has three children. In 1990 she moved with her family to Scotland , where she began writing in 1992 while teaching at Aberdeen College and later at the University of Aberdeen . After 2000 she lived with her family in Jakarta (Indonesia), Dubai , Abu Dhabi and Doha before returning to Aberdeen in 2012 .

Works

• 1999 The Translator
• 2001 Colored Lights
• 2005 minaret
• 2011 Lyrics Alley
• 2015 The Kindness of Enemies

Honors / prizes

• 2000 Caine Prize for African Writing for the short story The Museum
• 2000 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award for The Translator
• 2002 PEN Macmillan Macmillan Silver PEN Award (shortlist) for Colored Lights
• 2003 Race and Media Award for The Translator
• 2019 inclusion in the anthology New Daughters of Africa

Web links

• Literature by and about Leila Aboulela in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Leila Aboulela (Engl.)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Leila Aboulela at perlentaucher.de
• Leila Aboulela at the international literature festival berlin

Individual evidence

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