Rania Mamoun
Rania Ali Musa Mamoun (Arabic:) 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. 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. 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), as well as in Banipal magazine. The French anthology "Nouvelles du Soudan" (2010) included her story "Histoires de portes". 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. 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"".