Ill Feelings - Alice Hattrick (Fitzcarraldo Editions) record Aboulela was the first winner

Aboulela was the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and her short story collection

and dynamic nomadism is flowing through him

which were presented at Kunstverein Braunschweig and at SAVVY Contemporary

and Saskia Vogel's translation does shining justice to its poetic precision and depths

reveals the tangled thickets of its local schisms

Ill Feelings - Alice Hattrick (Fitzcarraldo Editions) record Aboulela was the first winnerIn 1995 Alices mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mothers and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary non fiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill