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2000 winner: LEILA ABOULELA

Leila Aboulela

Leila adapted her winning story The Museum for Radio 4. BBC radio has adapted her work extensively and broadcast a number of her plays including The Mystic Life and the historical drama The Lion of Chechnya. The radio drama serialization of The Translator was short-listed for the RIMA (Race In the Media Award). Leila's collection of short stories Coloured Lights, including The Museum, was published by Polygon and went on to be short-listed for the Macmillan/Silver PEN Award.


Both The Translator and Minaret were long listed for the
Orange Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award. Her third novel, Lyrics Alley, waspublished in January 2010 by Weidenfeld Nicolson. Set in 1950s Sudan, Lyrics Alley is the Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. It was long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for a Regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

 

Leila's website is at: www.leila-aboulela.com


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