Rania Mamoun

Activist, Artist, Writer/Editor

Rania Mamoun is a Sudanese writer and activist. Mamoun has published two novels in Arabic, Flash Akhdar (Green Flash) and Ibn-al-Shams (Son of the Sun). She is the author of the short story collection 13 Sharen Min Isharaq al Shams (Thirteen Months of Sunrise), which was translated to English by Elisabeth Jaquette, published by Comma Press in 2019, and shortlisted for the 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Mamoun’s writing has appeared in English translation in Banipal Magazine, Words Without Borders, and the collections The Book of Khartoum and Banthology, both from Comma Press, and in French translation by Xavier Luffin for Magellan & Cie’s Nouvelles du Soudan. Rania Mamoun was a Former editor of Al Thaqafi’s culture section and she was frequent contributor to Al Doha Magazine, Mamoun has recently published articles and, poems and short stories in Shenandoah Literary Journal, Al Baeed Magazine, Kikah Magazine, Al Araby UK, and Al Democrati, a Sudanese newspaper.