WRITER

Leila Aboulela

1964 - Today

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Leila Fuad Aboulela (Arabic:ليلى فؤاد ابوالعلا; 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. Until 2023, Aboulela has published six novels and several short stories, which have been translated into fifteen languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leila Aboulela has received more than 165,414 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Leila Aboulela is the 6,861st most popular writer (down from 6,197th in 2019), the 580th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 536th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Egyptian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Al-moutarjima
2003
Translator
2005
The Translator
Fiction, Sudanese, Widows
1999
Minaret
Rich people, Orphans, Political refugees
2005
La traductrice
2003
MINARET

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leila Aboulela ranks 6,861 out of 7,302. Before her are James T. Farrell, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Donna Williams, David X. Cohen, Emanuel Pastreich, and Krishna Hutheesing. After her are William Joyce, Christopher Smart, Nicole Krauss, Matt Haig, Brigitte Vasallo, and Kathrin Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Leila Aboulela ranks 710. Before her are Trischa Zorn, Dave Rowntree, Emanuel Pastreich, Jonathan Goldstein, Shannon Whirry, and Osamu Taninaka. After her are Ye Qiaobo, Paula Marshall, Daran Norris, Jesper Skibby, Lustmord, and Vladimir Krylov.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Leila Aboulela ranks 580 out of 642. Before her are Amr Khaled (1967), Essam Abdel-Fatah (1965), Hossam Ghaly (1981), Mostafa Mohamed (1997), Shikabala (1986), and Wael Ghonim (1980). After her are Ahmed Elmohamady (1987), Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991), Mena Massoud (1991), Asmaa Mahfouz (1985), Abdel-Zaher El-Saqqa (1974), and Gehad Grisha (1976).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Leila Aboulela ranks 61. Before her are Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892), Bahaa Taher (1935), Magdi Allam (1952), Karim Rashid (1960), Alifa Rifaat (1930), and Penelope Lively (1933). After her are Mona Eltahawy (1967).

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