Leila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her sixth novel, "River Spirit," was published in March 2023 and described by The New York Times as "Dazzling... a novel of war, love, faith, womanhood and — crucially — the tussle over truth and public narratives." Aboulela's work has been translated into fifteen languages and she was nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize for Fiction).
She grew up in Sudan and moved in her mid-twenties to Scotland, where she now lives. Aboulela is honorary professor of the WORD center at the University of Aberdeen and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Please join us in Oden Hall Auditorium on Monday, Oct. 9, at 4:30 p.m.
Cosponsored by Richard L. Thomas Professorship, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Robert P. Hubbard Professorship.