Ali El-Mek Award, Sudan,
PEN International Writers-in-Exile fellowship
South Sudanese literary writer
Stella Gaitano (Arabic: إستيلا قايتانو, b. 1979 in Khartoum, Sudan) is a literary writer, activist and former pharmacist from South Sudan. She is known for her stories, often dealing with the harsh living conditions of people from southern Sudan, who have endured discrimination and military dictatorship, war and displacement in the northern part of Sudan. Since the independence of South Sudan in 2011, she has also published short stories about life in her new nation.
StellaGaitano (Arabic: إستيلا قايتانو, b. 1979 in Khartoum, Sudan) is a literary writer, activist and former pharmacist from South Sudan. She is known...
modern literary writers of South Sudan, such as the short story writer StellaGaitano, who writes in Arabic since her beginnings as a student at the University...
violence against women, told by female authors like Rania Mamoun or StellaGaitano. Among contemporary Sudanese poets, Mahjoub Sharif is remembered for...
Jokha al-Harthi, Maya Abu al-Hayyat, Samira Azzam, Bushra Al-Maqtari, StellaGaitano and Djamila Morani. In 2017, ArabLit won the Literary Translation Initiative...
documentary photography of political events, South Sudanese writer StellaGaitano described the intentions of a fictional photographer taking pictures...
announced her participation again, this time together with the writer StellaGaitano from South Sudan. Isolation (2009). Short story in Arabic and English...
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