Leila Aboulela
Sudanese novelist and short-story writer whose fiction explores the experience of Muslim women in Britain and in Sudan with unusual compassion and depth. Minaret and The Translator are her most celebrated works. She was the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing.
Works
- The TranslatorIslamic scholar and Western woman navigate forbidden love in Scotland
- MinaretSudanese woman torn between Islamic faith and desire for freedom
- Lyrics AlleySon searches for his mother's past through art and family memory
- The Kindness of EnemiesWoman discovers her nemesis holds her own family's lost history
- Bird SummonsExotic dancer reclaims her voice and identity through storytelling
- Elsewhere HomeWoman immigrant returns to her homeland transformed by displacement