Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela, winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, lives in Aberdeen. She is the author of four novels, The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year, Minaret, and Lyrics Alley, Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her collection of short stories, Coloured Lights, was short-listed for the MacMillan Silver PEN Award. Leila grew up in Sudan and moved, in her mid-twenties, to Scotland. www.leila-aboulela.com