Rania Mamoun
Rania Mamoun | |
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رانيا مأمون | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Gezira, Sudan |
| Occupation | writer, novelist, journalist |
| Years active | 2006–present |
Rania Ali Musa Mamoun (Arabic:رانيا مأمون, born 1979) is a Sudanese journalist and fiction writer, known for her novels and short stories. She was born in the city of Wad Medani in east-central Sudan, and was educated at the University of Gezira.
Career and literary achievements[]
As a journalist, she has been active 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.[1]
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[2] and published by Comma Press in 2019.[3] Several of her stories have appeared in English translation, for example in the anthologies The Book of Khartoum (Comma Press, 2016) and Banthology (Comma Press, 2018),[4] as well as in Banipal magazine.[5] The French anthology Nouvelles du Soudan (2010) included her story Histoires de portes.[6]
Mamoun was the recipient of an AFAC () 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.[7]
In his 2019 article about the Top 10 Books about Sudan in The Guardian, Sudanese-born writer Jamal Mahjoub characterised her stories about everyday life in modern Khartoum as "prone to experimentation".[8]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Profile in Banipal website
- ^ "Interview with Sudanese writer Rania Mamoun and translator Elisabeth Jaquette: For the sheer pleasure of reading - Qantara.de". Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Thirteen Months of Sunrise – Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Rania Mamoun – Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Sudanese Literature Today (Spring 2016)". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Nouvelles du Soudan". www.editions-magellan.com. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ Profile in IPAF website Archived 10 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mahjoub, Jamal (15 May 2019). "Top 10 books about Sudan". the Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
Further reading[]
- Mamoun, Rania and Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator) 2019. Thirteen Months of Sunrise. Manchester: Comma Press ISBN 978-1910974391
- Al-Malik, A., Gaetano, S., Adam, H., Baraka, S. A., Karamallah, A., Mamoun, R., & Luffin, X. 2009. Nouvelles du Soudan. Paris: Magellan & Cie. (in French) ISBN 9782350741604
- Cormack, Raph and Shmookler, Max (eds.) 2016. The Book of Khartoum. A City in Short Fiction. ISBN 9781905583720
- Lynx Qualey, Marcia. Sudanese Literature: North and South. Arablit.org
External links[]
- Rania Mamoun at goodreads
- Rania Mamoun's short story "Doors”, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
- 1979 births
- Sudanese journalists
- Sudanese women journalists
- Sudanese novelists
- Sudanese women short story writers
- Sudanese short story writers
- Living people
- 21st-century Sudanese writers
- 21st-century women writers
- Sudanese women writers