- Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela has been awarded the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize for her literary contributions focusing on faith, migration and women's lives.
- The award is given to a writer who, in the words of the late British playwright Harold Pinter, casts an "unflinching, uncompromising" gaze on the world and "shows a fierce intellectual determination to define the real truth of our lives and our societies."
- Aboulela grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and has lived in Aberdeen since 1990.
- Her six novels and two short story collections include The Translator, Elsewhere, Home, and River Spirit, published most recently in 2023.
- The official awards ceremony will take place on October 10 at the British Library in London, where she will also announce the winner of the Writer of Courage Award.
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