Stella Gaitano’s debut novel, Edo’s Souls, is a multigenerational epic set between Sudan and South Sudan that stages a battle between the forces of Motherhood and Death. In this excerpt of […]
Stella Gaitano’s Edo’s Souls, forthcoming from Dedalus Books this year, will feature cover art by Khartoum-based Sudanese visual artist Yasmeen Abdullah.
Over at Kotobli, they have posted a new list; this time, of Sudanese novels through time. The list was curated by Sudanese-American writer Razan Idris.
Nine vibrant, world-stitching (and un-stitching) short stories by Sudanese and South Sudanese women in English translation.
“At some point you start to feel very patronised.”
This first Monday of Women in Translation Month, Sawad Hussain and Stella Gaitano share this excerpt from her novel The Souls of Eddo, winner of a PEN Translates Prize
For the first time, one of the “PEN Translates” awards will go to a South Sudanese novel.
As is our tradition for December 21, a list of 21 short stories for the shortest day of the year.
“And although beginnings have the better reputation, a beginning also serves to close off other possibilities. The ending, meanwhile, opens them up.”
