My African Reading List: Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese writer, currently living in Scotland. She is the author of six award winning novels, including The Translator (1999), Bird Summons (2019) and River Spirit (2023), as well as a number of plays and short story collections. Aboulela was the first ever winner of the Caine Prize for Fiction, and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

This is Leila Aboulela’s reading list:

• Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
• Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

                             The Wedding of Zein

• Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street)

                              The Thief and the dogs

• Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun
• Fatin Abbas, Ghost Season
• Isabella Hammad, The Parisian

                              Enter Ghost

In this podcast series the House of Literature in Oslo, Norway invites writers and thinkers to talk about their work, what they read and present their reading list from the African continent and diaspora.

Host in this episode Åshild Lappegård Lahn

Editing and production by the House of Literature

Music by Ibou Cissokho

The House of Literature’s project to promote African literature is supported by NORAD.

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