Biographies of Stella Gaitano

Stella Gaitano was born in Khartoum, Sudan in 1979. Her family comes from South Sudan. She studied pharmacy at Khartoum University. She has said that she started writing stories while she was still at primary school. Among the authors who have influenced her, Gaitano cites the Sudanese At-Tayyib Salih, as well as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende. During her studies, she came into contact with intellectuals and political activists, after which she intensified her writing and started to write about herself, her family, and her people. Gaitano moved from the north to South Sudan in 2012. She is considered an important voice for her countrymen who have experienced war and displacement. She writes in Arabic.

Gaitano says that she...