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LeilaAboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for A frican W riting N ominated three times for the O range Prize (now the W omen?s Prize for Fiction), she is the author of numerous novels, including Bird Summons, The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator, a N ew York Times

N otable Book of the Year, M inaret and Lyrics

A lley, which was Fiction W inner of the Scottish Book A wards H er collection of short stories

Elsewhere, H ome won the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year. Leila?s work has been translated into fifteen languages, and her plays The Insider, The M ystic Life and others were broadcast on BBC Radio She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in A berdeen, Scotland