Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela , is perhaps unexpectedly part of the new Scottish realist movement.
She began writing while living in Aberdeen, a place about as far removed from her native Khartoum as possible and says she would never have become a writer if she had stayed in the Sudan, because she would have had a 'proper job'.
Leila's work is about the Muslim emigrant experience in Britain: from comic cultural misunderstandings to deep spiritual struggles.
Her short story The Museum won the inaugural Caine prize for African writing and she talks to Sheila from the Edinburgh Book Festival.
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