{"id":18478,"date":"2024-04-12T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=18478"},"modified":"2024-04-12T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:22:18","slug":"estela-gaetano-simplicity-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/estela-gaetano-simplicity-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Estela Gaetano&#8230;simplicity stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of short stories in German<br \/>\nEstela Gaetano&#8230;simplicity stories<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Magda Hassan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The creative writer Estella Gaetano launched her collection of short stories in German, (Endless Days at Point Zero) amid great celebration from intellectuals and readers who love the word Estella, the simple writer who started writing early when she was the daughter of Sudan in general before she is currently described as the daughter of South Sudan.<br \/>\nWho is Estela Gaetano?<br \/>\nStella Gaitano, born in 1978, is a South Sudanese writer and pharmacist.<br \/>\nShe is known for her short stories that often highlight the harsh living conditions of South Sudanese, who have suffered from discrimination and military dictatorship, or because of their suffering from war in Northern part of Sudan. She has also been writing about public life in her new country since South Sudan&#8217;s independence in 2011.<br \/>\nEstela Gaetano: I am African, so it is natural that my upbringing was on stories. Grandmothers are pioneers and wells of secrets, tellers of amazing legends, which expanded my imagination to the limit, in addition to the cultural richness found in them.<br \/>\nGaetano grew up in East Nile &#8211; Popular Housing &#8211; in Haj Youssuf before the secession of the South from northern Sudan, and learned several languages.<br \/>\nShe spoke with her parents in Latoka, one of the languages \u200b\u200bof South Sudan, and spoke the Sudanese dialect and Arabic with other people.<br \/>\nI studied at the University of Khartoum in English and Arabic.<br \/>\nGaetano writes her stories and novels in Arabic, which is her favorite language to write, even though Arabic is not the official language of South Sudan.<br \/>\nGaetano said in an interview with the New York Times: \u201cI love the Arabic language, and I love writing in it. \u201c<br \/>\nIt is the linguistic template that I want to fill my personal stories and culture with, which is distinct from the Arabs.\u201d She explained the reasons for her preference for the Arabic language in her writings: \u201cIt was important to me that the North Sudanese realize that there are lives, values, and people with a different culture, and they need space to be recognised and respected.\u201d<br \/>\nIn 2020, her novel \u201cSpirits of Edo\u201d won the British Pen Prize for Translated Fiction.<br \/>\nSince 2012, Gaetano has been living in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and working as a pharmacist while continuing her work in literary consulting.<br \/>\nSome of her books include:<br \/>\nNew Paths, Sudanese Story Club, 2002<br \/>\nA lake the size of a pawpaw tree<br \/>\nWithered Flowers, Dar Azza, 2004<br \/>\nThe Return, Dar Rafiqi, 2014<br \/>\nSpirits of Edo, Rafiqi House, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of short stories in German Estela Gaetano&#8230;simplicity stories Sudan Events &#8211; Magda Hassan The creative writer Estella Gaetano launched her collection of short stories in German, (Endless Days at Point Zero) amid great celebration from intellectuals and readers who love the word Estella, the simple writer who started writing early when she was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18485,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478\/revisions\/18485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}