novel Travelling with Djinns (2003) was awarded the Prix d'Astrolabe at the prestigious Etonnants Voyageurs festival in France. His most recent works are The Drift Latitudes and Nubian Indigo. Mahjoub was born in London but grew up in the Sudan. His first three novels — Navigation of a Rainmaker, Wings of Dust and In the Hour of Signs— form a loose trilogy dealing with Sudan and its history. The Carrier, his fourth novel, examines the development of the telescope and the link between scientific advances in the Arab world and the Renaissance, in particular heliocentricity and the separation of science and religion. Later works deal with migration and identity in today's Europe. He is currently writing a non-fiction book on the Darfur conflict. Mahjoub lives and works in Barcelona.

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