Lithouse Podcast

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 KingTayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North                             The Wedding of ZeinNaguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street)                              The Thief and the dogs Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the SunFatin Abbas, Ghost Season