Bushra Elfadil is a Sudanese writer and poet.

Career

Elfadil was born in the village of Araggi in the Northern State

Northern State

Northern State may refer to:*Northern State , a female rap group from New York City*The Northern State Parkway, a limited-access parkway located on Long Island*Northern, Sudan, one of 26 states in Sudan...

 of Sudan. He moved with his family to the village of Wad El-bor in the state of Al Jazirah

Al Jazirah (state)

Al Jazirah , also spelled Gezira, is one of the 15 states of Sudan. The state lies between the Blue Nile and the White Nile in the east-central region of the country. It has an area of 27,549 km². The name comes from the Arabic word for peninsula. Wad Madani is the capital of the state.It is...

 in central Sudan, however, where he received his primary education and where his family still lives today. He studied the Russian Language in Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 and received his PhD in Russian Language, after which he returned to Sudan, where he was appointed as a lecturer in the Russian Language

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 Department in the Faculty Of Arts at Khartoum University. He worked there until he was expelled in the early 1990s along with many other lecturers and hundreds of student after protests about the military coup by Omar al-Bashir

Omar al-Bashir

Lieutenant General Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir is the current President of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister...

. He currently lives in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

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Works

• Hikkayat Al-bint Al-lti Tarrat Asafiraha (The Story of the girl whom her birds´ flew), a collection of short stories.
• Azrraq Alyamama
• Al-hossan Altayer (The Flying Horse), a collection of children stories, lost by the publisher.
• Gassied fie El-zil (Poems On The Shadow), to be published

External links

• Elfadil (in Arabic)