Rania Mamoun

Rania Ali Musa Mamoun (Arabic:رانيا مأمون, born 1979) is a Sudanese journalist, novelist and fiction writer.[1] She was born in the city of Wad Medani in east-central Sudan, and was educated at the University of Gezira.

Rania Mamoun
رانيا مأمون
Born
Sudan
Alma materUniversity of Gezira
Occupationwriter, novelist, journalist
Years active2006–present

Career

As a journalist, she has been involved in both print media and television. In particular, she has edited the culture page of the journal al-Thaqafi, has written a column for the newspaper al-Adwaa and presented a cultural programme on Gezira State TV.

As a literary author, Mamoun has published two novels in Arabic, Green Flash (2006) and Son of the Sun (2013), as well as a short story collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise, which was translated into English by Elisabeth Jaquette and published by Comma Press in 2019.[2] Several of her stories have appeared in English translation, including in The Book of Khartoum (Comma Press, 2016), Banthology (Comma Press, 2018),[3] and in Banipal magazine.[4] The French anthology Nouvelles du Soudan (2010) included her story Histoires de portes.[5]

Mamoun was the recipient of an AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture) grant in 2009, and the following year, she was selected to participate in the second IPAF Nadwa, an annual workshop for young Arabic-language writers.[6]

In his 2019 article about the Top 10 Books about Sudan, Sudanese-born writer Jamal Mahjoub characterised her stories about everyday life in modern Khartoum as prone to experimentation.[7]

See also

References
  1. Profile in Banipal website
  2. "Thirteen Months of Sunrise – Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  3. "Rania Mamoun – Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  4. "Sudanese Literature Today (Spring 2016)". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  5. "Nouvelles du Soudan". www.editions-magellan.com. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  6. Profile in IPAF website Archived 10 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Mahjoub, Jamal (15 May 2019). "Top 10 books about Sudan". the Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2021.

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