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Rafeif Ismail Rafeif Ismail i(10721145 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Sudanese
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BiographyHistory

Rafeif Ismail is an African Australian living in Western Australia.

From Margaret River Press:

'Rafeif Ismail turns to poetry and music to remind her of her first home and as a way to learn her first language. A third-culture child of the Sudanese diaspora, Rafeif often explores the ideas of home and belonging in her craft. Writing first began as a way for her to understand and reconcile different aspects of her identity as a Sudanese refugee in Australia. Rafeif ’s writing is often a mixture of Arabic and English. She is looking for a way that will allow her to recreate the stories of her childhood in her second language.'

(Source : Margaret River Press website)

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 recipient Varuna Fellowships — Jerra Studio Fellowship for their speculative fiction ‘Something Like Revolution 1: Byut Al Ashbah’
2023 recipient Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship
2022 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Arts and Disability Awards
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Unlimited Futures Unlimited Futures : Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 23419495 2022 anthology short story

'Unlimited Futures is an anthology of Own Voice speculative fiction from 21 emerging and established First Nations writers and Black writers, reflecting visionary pasts, hopeful futures and the invisible ties between First Nations people and People of Colour.

'With works by Tuesday Atzinger, Flora Chol, Claire Coleman, Zena Cumpston, Lisa Fuller, Meleika Gasa-Fatafehi, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Chemutai Glasheen, Genevieve Grieves, Rafeif Ismail, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Laniyuk, Maree McCathy Yoelu, Jasmin McGaughey, SJ Minniecon, Sisonke Msimang, Merryana Salem, Mykaela Saunders, Aïsha Trambas, Alison Whittaker and Jasper Wyld, this is an anthology of the tales they wish had existed when they were growing up in Australia.'

Source : publisher's blurb
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Anthology Division
Almitra Amongst Ghosts 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 21 2017; Meet Me at the Intersection 2018;
2017 winner Deborah Cass Prize
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