Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith

Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration"

Leila Aboulela has won this year's PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women.

The prize is awarded to a writer who, in the words of the late British playwright Harold Pinter, casts an unflinching, unswerving" gaze on the world, and shows a fierce intellectual determination ... to define the real truth of our lives and our societies".