Leila Aboulela Quotes

born 1964 Sudan

Leila Fuad Aboulela FRSL ( born 1964) is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright of Sudanese origin based in Aberdeen, Scotland. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and moved to Scotland in 1990 where she began her literary career.

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Also known as: The Translator

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Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else

River Spirit (2023)

Narrator in The Translator Quotes (chapter 1)

The Translator (1999)

Fiction is fueled by love and anger—my love for my father and his own love for his family and country fueled Lyrics Alley.

Interview with World Literature Today (2019)

I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty.

River Spirit (2023)

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

if you want to produce art, you want it to be more than defensive – you want it to be more than a response, it must be structured in such a way that it is self-supporting.

Interview (2020)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leila Aboulela (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.