Rania Mamoun is a Sudanese activist, novelist, and writer. Mamoun has published two novels in Arabic, Green Flash (2006) and Son of the Sun (2013), as well as the short story collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise (2009). Thirteen Months of Sunrise, shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2020, was translated into English by Elisabeth Jaquette and published by Comma Press in 2019. Several of her stories have appeared in English translation, including in The Book of Khartoum (Comma Press, 2016), Banthology (Comma Press, 2018), and Banipal magazine (2007, 2016). Recently, Mamoun has written stories and articles for Al Baeed magazine, Al Araby UK, and the Democrat, a Sudanese newspaper.