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Leila Aboulela

1964 - Today

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Leila Fuad Aboulela (Arabic:ليلى فؤاد ابوالعلا; born 1964) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Leila Aboulela is the 6,608th most popular writer (up from 6,863rd in 2024), the 561st most popular biography from Egypt (up from 581st in 2019) and the 61st most popular Egyptian Writer.

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Among writers, Leila Aboulela ranks 6,608 out of 7,302. Before her are Catherine Cookson, Raffaëla Anderson, Scott Westerfeld, Laurent Mauvignier, Kaifi Azmi, and William Collins. After her are Sandro Veronesi, Vachel Lindsay, David Diop, Rick Yancey, Adam Horowitz, and Derek Taylor.

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Among people born in 1964, Leila Aboulela ranks 633. Before her are Radiy Khabirov, Cristina Cifuentes, Nikolay Iliev, Giuseppe Iachini, Masaya Onosaka, and Frank-Peter Roetsch. After her are Ruth Metzler, Josip Weber, Serafín Zubiri, Alexander Vedernikov, Ronald Agénor, and Alexander Gordon.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Leila Aboulela ranks 561 out of 642. Before her are Sylvain Sylvain (1951), Ahmed Shobair (1960), Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh (1905), Ghada Amer (1963), Magdi Abdelghani (1959), and Princess Rym Ali (1969). After her are Essam Abdel-Fatah (1965), Angham (1972), Hisham Abbas (1963), Abu Hamza al-Masri (1958), Amr Khaled (1967), and Fathi Hassan (1957).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Leila Aboulela ranks 61. Before her are Mahmud Taymur (1894), Gamal El-Ghitani (1945), Bahaa Taher (1935), Penelope Lively (1933), Karim Rashid (1960), and Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892). After her are Hamed Abdel-Samad (1972), and Mona Eltahawy (1967).

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