Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela is the first ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her novels include Bird Summons, The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator (longlisted for the Orange Prize), Minaret and Lyrics Alley, which was Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.