Speakers

  • Fatin Abbas
  • Author

Fatin Abbas is the author of Ghost Season: A Novel, set in the borderlands of Sudan and South Sudan (W.W. Norton, US & Canada; Jacaranda, UK, 2023; Rowohlt Berlin, Germany, 2024). Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Freeman’s, The Warwick Review, and Friction, and her journalism and review essays have appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique, The Nation, Zeit Online, Africa is a Country, Bidoun, African Arguments and openDemocracy, amongst other places. She was born in Khartoum, Sudan and grew up in New York, USA.