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Leila Fuad Aboulela (Arabic:ليلى فؤاد ابوالعلا; born 1964) is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright of Sudanese origin based in [[Aberdeen]], Scotland.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Leila Aboulela |url=http://www.leila-aboulela.com/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |language=en-US}}</ref> She grew up in [[Khartoum]], Sudan, and moved to [[Scotland]] in 1990 where she began her literary career.<ref name=":0" /> Aboulela has published five novels and several short stories, which have been translated into fifteen languages.<ref name=":0" /> Her most popular novels, [[Minaret (novel)|''Minaret'']] (2005) and ''[[The Translator (Leila Aboulela novel)|The Translator]]'' (1999) both feature the stories of Muslim women in the UK and were long-listed for the [[International Dublin Literary Award]] and [[Orange Prize]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Chambers |first=Claire |date= |title=An Interview with Leila Aboulela,Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 86–102, |url=https://academic.oup.com/crawlprevention/governor?content=%2fcww%2farticle-lookup%2fdoi%2f10.1093%2fcww%2fvpp003 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=academic.oup.com |doi=10.1093/cww/vpp003}}</ref> Aboulela’s works have been <u>included in publications such as ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Granta]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'' and ''[[The Guardian]]''</u>. <u>''[[BBC Radio]]'' has adapted her work extensively and broadcast a number of her plays, including ''The Insider'', ''The Mystic Life'' and the historical drama ''The Lion of Chechnya''.</u><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Leila Aboulela - Literature |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/leila-aboulela |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=literature.britishcouncil.org}}</ref> <u>The five-part radio serialization of her 1999 novel ''The Translator'' was short-listed for the [[Race in the Media Award|Race In the Media Award]] (RIMA).</u><ref name=":2" />  Aboulela’s work is critically acclaimed for its depiction of Muslim migrants in the West the and the challenges they face. Her work is heavily influenced by her own experiences as an immigrant to the United Kingdom and the hardships she experienced during the transition. Her work centers around political issues and themes such as identity, multi-cultural relationships, the East-West divide, migration, and Islamic spirituality. Her prose has been celebrated for its "restrained lyricism, irony and clarity” by [[J. M. Coetzee|J.M Coetzee]], [[Ben Okri]] and [[Ali Smith|Ali Smit]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Leila- Leila Aboulela |url=http://www.leila-aboulela.com/about/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |language=en-US}}</ref>