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:
www.wasafiri.org/content/the-...
#LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks
🎉 Félicitations à Leila Aboulela qui remporte le PEN Pinter Prize 2025 ! ✨📚
🔗 À lire sur Afrolivresque :
afrolivresque.com/soudan-leila...
#LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #Afrolivresque #LittératureAfricaine #TheTranslator #PENPinterPrize2025 #Soudan #SudaneseWriter
"In novels, short stories and radio plays she has navigated the global and local, the political with the spiritual, and the nostalgia for a past home with the concurrent curiosity and desire for survival in a new one." English PEN Pinter Judge #NadifaMohamed on #LeilaAboulela 2025 winner
Learning that #LeilaAboulela has won the English PEN Pinter prize 2025, I reflect on the 3 excellent novels I have read #BirdSummons,
#TheKindnessOfEnemies
and
#RiverSpirit
All highly recommended.
Last year's winner was Arundhati Roy (2024)
clairemcalpine.com/2025/07/11/l...
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...
#LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks
#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... 📚
On Saturday 14 June, I’m going to read a paper on Leila Aboulela and Japanese academia in LiberLit 12 (Nihon University, Tokyo). #Liberlit #LeilaAboulela
6月14日(土)、Liberlit第12回大会(@日本大学文理学部)で発表します。レイラ・アブレラを日本で読むことについて。(使用言語: 英語) 5月から6月にかけてちょっとハードなスケジュール。 #Liberlit #LeilaAboulela #日本大学
#sudan #eyesonsudan #grovepress
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela #sudan #eyesonsudan #grovepress @leilaaboulela @groveatlantic
‘Zamzam walked back through a town that was beginning to bloom as a new capital in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela
in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’ 2/2
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela #sudan #eyesonsudan #grovepress
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela #sudan #eyesonsudan
