Creative Conversations: Award-winning Author Leila Aboulela
Creative Conversations: Award-winning Author Leila Aboulela
Creative Writing: Creative Conversations
Date: Monday 25 September 2017
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: University Chapel
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Speaker: Leila Aboulela
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/creativewriting/
As part of the on-going Creative Conversation speaker series, author Leila Aboulela comes to campus to discuss her writing. Bring your lunch and burning questions!
Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese-born writer whose work, written in English, has received critical acclaim and a high profile for its distinctive exploration of identity, migration and Islamic spirituality. She is the author of four novels, a collection of short stories and several radio plays. Her latest novel, The Kindness of Enemies is inspired by the life of Imam Shamil, who united the tribes of the Caucasus to fight against Russian Imperial expansion.
Leila's novel Lyrics Alley, was Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards and short-listed for a Regional Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her first novel, The Translator, was published by Polygon in 1999 and was short-listed for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the IMPAC prize. It was also picked up by the BBC and adapted into a five-part drama serial for BBC Radio Four in 2002. A book of her short stories entitled Coloured Lights was published in 2001 by Polygon. One of its stories, 'The Museum’, was again dramatised for BBC Radio Four and won the very first Caine Prize for African Writing. Her second novel, Minaret, was published in 2005 by Bloomsbury and was long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the IMPAC prize. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Find out more information about her on her website: http://www.leila-aboulela.com/
Books by featured authors will be for sale in John Smiths bookshop.
This series is sponsored by the Ferguson Bequest and programmed by Creative Writing at University of Glasgow.