Rania Mamoun
Rania Ali Musa Mamoun is a Sudanese journalist, novelist and fiction writer. She was born in the city of Wad Medani in east-central Sudan, and was educated at the University of Gezira. As a journalist, she is involved in both print media and television. She edits the culture page of the journal al-Thaqafi, writes a column for the newspaper al-Adwaa, and presents a cultural programme on Gezira State TV.
As an author, Mamoun has published two novels in Arabic, Green Flash and Son of the Sun, 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. Several of her stories have appeared in English translation, including in The Book of Khartoum, Banthology, and in Banipal magazine. The French anthology Nouvelles du Soudan, included her story Histoires de portes.
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.
