Leila Aboulela is the winner of the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize, the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, and a three-time nominee for the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction). She is the author of numerous novels, including River Spirit, The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator, Minaret, and Lyrics Alley, which was the Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her story collection Elsewhere, Home won the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages, and she has also written numerous plays for BBC Radio. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is Honorary Professor of the WORD Centre at the University of Aberdeen and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
