| LC control no. | no 00008864 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6051.B68 |
| Personal name heading | Aboulela, Leila, 1964- |
| Associated country | Egypt Sudan |
| Associated place | Scotland |
| Birth date | 1964 |
| Place of birth | Cairo (Egypt) |
| Affiliation | Jāmiʻat al-Kharṭūm London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists |
| Found in | The translator, 1999: t.p. (Leila Aboulela) cover p. 4 (b. in 1964; lives and works in Aberdeen) Minaret, 2005: t.p. (Leila Aboulela) jkt. flap (b. in Khartoum; lives between Dubai and Aberdeen) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Aboulela, Leila; Sudanese writer; born 1964 in Cairo, Egypt to an Egyptian mother and a Sudanese father; graduated from the University of Khartoum with a degree in economics (1985); studied for her master's degree in statistics at the London School of Economics; moved to Aberdeen, Scotland with her husband and three children (1990); started writing in 1992 while working as a part-time research assistant and lecturer; a devout Muslim, her fictional work engages with the role of faith in the life of her multifaceted characters) |
| Associated language | eng |
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