My Grandmother's Degree by Leila Aboulela

A woman remembers a childhood gift from her vibrant and beloved grandmother.

Amira Ghazalla reads a new short work from Leila Aboulela

Produced at BBC Scotland by Eilidh McCreadie.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 January 2024.

**** Leila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing.

Nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction), she is the author of novels, including Bird Summons, The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Minaret and Lyrics Alley, Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards.

Her collection of short stories Elsewhere, Home won the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year. Leila’s work has been translated into fifteen languages, and her plays The Insider, The Mystic Life and others were broadcast on BBC Radio.

She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.