'Faith, though often unfashionable in the arts, emerges in Aboulela’s work not as an oppressor, but as a source of solace – a well of deep knowing.'
In #PENTransmissions, Sabrina Mahfouz’s encomium for #PENPinterPrize 2025 winner Leila Aboulela.
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'I want to remove the fingers of accusation that are always directed at others, and instead hold up a mirror. Because at some point the other becomes the self.'
Stella Gaitano’s #PENPinterPrize Writer of Courage 2025 speech is now in #PENTransmissions.
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‘Without justice, the balance of the world is undone. Justice is the gravity keeping us upright as humans.’
Leila Aboulela’s #PENPinterPrize 2025 speech – delivered at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social – is now in our online magazine, #PENTransmissions.
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“Justice is the gravity keeping us upright”
Put that on a t-shirt and proclaim it boldly!
Leila Aboulela is brilliant. #PENPinterPrize
An image of author Leila Aboulela with a quote from her Pen Pinter Prize acceptance speech, 'Justice is the gravity keeping us upright as humans'.
Thrilled to see Leila Aboulela awarded the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize!
Her acceptance speech “The Inaccurate Mirror” is powerful and deeply moving.
Read it here via Wasafiri:
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At English PEN’s #PENPinterPrize event on Friday, Leila Aboulela, winner of the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize, announced writer, journalist and human rights activist Stella Gaitano as this year’s Writer of Courage.
Congratulations to both writers!
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Leila Aboulela, winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2025, has announced writer, journalist and human rights activist, Stella Gaitano, as this year’s Writer of Courage.
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
There’s still time to book your ticket for tonight’s #PENPinterPrize ceremony where Leila Aboulela will accept the award and announce this year’s Writer of Courage. Join us at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social or watch online.
Book now ⤵️
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🎉 Félicitations à Leila Aboulela qui remporte le PEN Pinter Prize 2025 ! ✨📚
🔗 À lire sur Afrolivresque :
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Congratulations to Leila Aboulela, who has been announced as the winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2025 by @englishpen.bsky.social.
On 10 October 2025, she will receive the award at a ceremony at the British Library. Book your place ⬇️
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Wonderful news! Leila Aboulela, Saqi author and a truly powerful literary voice, has been awarded the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize. She’ll receive the honour on 10 Oct at the British Library. We’re so proud! Learn more here: www.englishpen.org/posts/news/l...
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#LeilaAboulela wins #PENPinterPrize for writing on migration and faith. Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... 📚
Thank you to this year’s wonderful #PENPinterPrize judges – Ruth Borthwick, @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social, and Nadifa Mohamed – for all their care, attention and insight.
We are thrilled to announce that Leila Aboulela is the winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2025.
She will receive the award at a ceremony at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on 10 October 2025, where she will deliver an address.
Book now ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/news/l...
Many thanks to @irishexaminer
for including my piece in today's paper about #MichaelLongley and #MahvashSabet and their sharing of the #PENPinterPrize in 2017. @ucc.ie @englishpen.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social.
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#LKJ s #poetry has been part of the soundtrack of my adult life I remember seeing him at the H4C & that he came to sit behind us to watch part of the next act In a rare starstruck moment I turned round to him & managed to burble "I really love what you do" & I do! #PENPinterPrize
"I'd like to introduce to you, a number I wrote in the 70s, when Fascism was on the rise once again, not only in England, but all over Europe. And in the 21st century, things haven't changed. Fight them back." #lintonkwesijohnson #lkj #PENPinterPrize...
