{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67bf0d339f45343122e9f35d/67bf1114ddaea755a7c7915f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Leila Aboulela","description":"<p><strong>Leila Aboulela </strong>is a Sudanese writer, currently living in Scotland. She is the author of six award winning novels, including <em>The Translator </em>(1999), <em>Bird Summons </em>(2019) and <em>River Spirit </em>(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.</p><p><br></p><p>This is Leila Aboulela’s reading list:</p><ul><li>Maaza Mengiste, <em>The Shadow King</em></li><li>Tayeb Salih, <em>Season of Migration to the North</em></li></ul><p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Wedding of Zein</em></p><ul><li>Naguib Mahfouz, <em>The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street)</em></li></ul><p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>\t<em>The Thief and the dogs </em></p><ul><li>Ahdaf Soueif, <em>In the Eye of the Sun</em></li><li>Fatin Abbas, <em>Ghost Season </em></li><li>Isabella Hammad, <em>The Parisian</em></li></ul><p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</em> <em>Enter Ghost</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The host in this episode is Åshild Lappegård Lahn.</p><p>Editing and production by the House of Literature.</p><p>Music by Ibou Cissokho.</p><p><br></p><p><em>The House of Literature’s project to promote African literature is supported by NORAD.</em></p>","author_name":"Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset"}