# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leila-aboulela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:22:39.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leila-aboulela"
name: "Leila Aboulela"
slug: "leila-aboulela"
description: "Leila Fuad Aboulela is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright of Sudanese origin based in Aberdeen, Scotland. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and in 1990 moved to Scotland, where she began her literary career. As of 2023, Aboulela has published six novels and several short stories, which have been translated into fifteen languages. Her most popular novels, Minaret (2005) and The Translator (1999) both feature the stories of Muslim women in the UK and were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and Orange Prize. Aboulela's works have been included in publications such as Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Washington Post and The Guardian. BBC Radio has adapted her work extensively and broadcast a number of her plays, including The Insider, The Mystic Life and the historical drama The Lion of Chechnya. The five-part radio serialization of her 1999 novel The Translator was short-listed for the Race In the Media Award (RIMA)."
tagline: "Sudanese writer and playwright"
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump