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Rania Mamoun Author

Born in 1979, Rania Mamoun is a Sudanese author, journalist, and activist. She 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 will be published in English by Comma Press in 2018. Her short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Book of Khartoum (Comma Press, 2016), the first ever anthology of Sudanese short fiction in translation. She has also worked as culture page editor of Al-Thaqafi magazine, a columnist for Ad-Adwaa newspaper and presenter of the 'Silicon Valley' cultural programme on Sudanese TV.