List of Sudanese writers
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This is a list of prominent Sudanese writers.
Novelists
- Muhsin Khalid (1973 - )
- Leila AboulelaLeila AboulelaLeila Aboulela , Arabic ليلى ابوالعلا is a Sudanese writer and playwright. She writes in English.- Personal life :Born in 1964 Cairo, Egypt, Aboulela grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, where she attended the Khartoum American School and Sister School...
(1964 - ) - Ra'ouf Mus'adRa'ouf Mus'adRa’ouf Mus'ad is a playwright, journalist and novelist who was born in Sudan to Egyptian Coptic parents. He moved to Egypt as a teenager and lived in various countries, both in the Middle East and in Europe, during the past 30 years...
, also connected with EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
(1937 - ) - Malkat Ed-Dar MohamedMalkat Ed-Dar MohamedMalkat Ed-Dar Mohamed Abdullah was a Sudanese novelist, composer, and poet. She was born in El-Obaid, Sudan.-Select bibliography:* The Mad Woman* The Wide Hollowness* The Village’s Wiseman...
(1920 - 1969), also short stories writer - Tayeb SalihTayeb Salih-Early life:Born in Karmakol, near the village of Al Dabbah in the Northern Province of Sudan, he studied at the University of Khartoum before leaving for the University of London in England. Coming from a background of small farmers and religious teachers, his original intention was to work in...
(1929 - 2009)
Poets
- Al-ssadiq Al-raddiAl-ssadiq Al-raddiAl-ssadiq Al-raddi is a Sudanese writer and poet who was born in Omdurman, Sudan.-Career:Al-ssadiq has been publishing poetry since he was 15 when his poem The Wind was published in the literary journal Al-Shawa. Al-ssadiq was awarded the prize of Youth Poets in 1986 and in the same year he got a...
(1969 - ) - Abed Elrahim Abu ZakrraAbed Elrahim Abu ZakrraAbed Elrahim Abu Zakrra or AbuZikreea was a Sudanese writer, poet, and translator.- Early life :Abed Elrahim was born in the small village of Tangassi El-soeq in Northern, Sudan, close to Meroë town . He got his primary education in his homeland, but went to Kosti in White Nile State for his...
(1943 - 1989) - Gely Abdel RahmanGely Abdel RahmanGely Abdel Rahman was one of the leading Sudanese poets of the second half of 20th century.-Early life:Gely Abdel Rahman was born in Gez'irat Saay, or Saï , a small island in the Nile river in northern Sudan...
(Gaili) (1933 - 1990) - Ibrahim 'Ali SalmanIbrahim 'Ali SalmanIbrahim 'Ali Salman is the most famous contemporary poet of the Arab Manasir who inhabit the area of the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Northern Sudan...
(1937 - 1995) - Mohammed Abed ElhaiMohammed Abed ElhaiMohammed Abed Elhai Mahm'od Arabic محمد عبد الحي is a well known member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics. He is regarded as a pioneer of modern poetry in Sudan.-Early life:...
, (1944 - 1989) - Mohammed Moftahh ElfitoryMohammed Moftahh ElfitoryMohammed Moftahh Rajab Elfitory known as El fitory , Arabic محمد الفيتوري,is a very famous writer, poet, playwright, of Libyan and Egyptian ancestry.-Early life:...
, also connected to Libya - Muhammad Ahmad MahgoubMuhammad Ahmad MahgoubMuhammad Ahmad Mahgoub was a former foreign minister, then Prime Minister, of Sudan and an important writer who has published several volumes of poetry in the Arabic language....
(1908 - 1976) - Rashad HashimRashad HashimRashad "Boulder Fist" Hashim is a famous Sudanese Romantic Poet. Born in London, England in 1902, Hashim was influenced by a number of poets such as John Keats with whom he also shared a similar sense of melancholy...
- Salah Ahmed IbrahimSalah Ahmed IbrahimSalah Ahmed Ibrahim, Arabic صلاح أحمد إبراهيم, was a Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat.-Writing:Salah Ibrahim was described in 1963 as the most important Sudanese poet of his generation, and that: "in his poetry there is all the yearning, all the frustration of his generation. He writes his poetry...
(1933 - 1993) also short stories writer and translator - Taban Lo LiyongTaban Lo LiyongTaban Lo Liyong is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism. His political views, as well as his on-going denigration of the post-colonial system of education in East Africa, have inspired criticism and controversy since the late 1960s.His real name is...
(1939 - ), also connected to Uganda, Kenya
Short story writers
- Ali EL-MaakAli El-MaakAli El-Maak is ranked among the great Sudanese writers and as a pioneer of Sudanese short stories.-Early life:Ali was born in Omdurman, Sudan...
(1937-1992), also translator and poet - Bushra ElfadilBushra Elfadil-Career:Elfadil was born in the village of Araggi in the Northern State of Sudan. He moved with his family to the village of Wad El-bor in the state of Al Jazirah in central Sudan, however, where he received his primary education and where his family still lives today...
(1952-) also poet
Political writers
- Abdel Khaliq MahjubAbdel Khaliq MahjubAbdel Khaliq Mahjub was a Sudanese politician.Mahjub was born in Omdurman. He was the Secretary General of the Sudanese Communist Party till his death by execution in Khartum during the Gaafar Nimeiry regime...
(-1971) - Abel AlierAbel AlierAbel Alier Kwai is a South Sudanese politician who is currently in his 70s . After Sudan gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1956, Southern Sudan was not left as an independent state. This led to a deadly war a year before the independence. A party in the war was Anyanya 1 Under Joseph...
- Fatima Ahmed IbrahimFatima Ahmed IbrahimFatima Ahmed Ibrahim, , Sudanese writer, women rights activist and Socialist leader.-Early life:Fatima was born in Khartoum, her family one of educated family at that time,her grandfather was a headmaster to the first Sudanese School for boys and as the same time Imam in his neighborhood's mosque...
(1933-) - Muhammad Ibrahim NugudMuhammad Ibrahim NugudMuhammad Ibrahim Nugud is a Sudanese politician. He is the current leader and Secretary General of the Sudanese Communist Party. He succeeded Abdel Khaliq Mahjub after the latter's execution in 1971.- References :...
- Sadiq al-MahdiSadiq al-MahdiSadiq al-Mahdi is a Sudanese political and religious figure...
(1936-)
Islamic reformist writers
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'imAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'imAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. His specialties include human rights in Islam and cross-cultural issues in human rights, and he is the director of the Religion and Human Rights Program at Emory. He is also a senior fellow of...
- Hassan al-TurabiHassan al-TurabiDr. Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi , commonly called Hassan al-Turabi , is a religious and Islamist political leader in Sudan, who may have been instrumental in institutionalizing sharia in the northern part of the...
- Mahmoud Mohamed TahaMahmoud Mohamed TahaMahmoud Mohammed Taha, also known as Ustaz Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, was a Sudanese religious thinker, leader, and trained engineer. He was executed for apostasy at the age of 76 by regime of Gaafar Nimeiry....
Journalists & editors
- Alfred TabanAlfred TabanAlfred Taban Logune is a Sudanese broadcast journalist. He is currently working as the BBC's correspondent in Khartoum. He is the managing editor of the Khartoum Monitor, the only independent English-language newspaper in Sudan....
, (1957 - ) - Abdul Raheem GlaiatiAbdul Raheem GlaiatiAbdul Raheem Glaiati was a renowned Sudanese poet, author and newspaper editor. He edited the newspaper Al-Ra'id between 1914 and 1917, when he was deported to Egypt after publishing an article describing the low standards of living of the Sudanese people.-References:* El-Nour, Eiman "The...
- Mohammed Taha Mohammed AhmedMohammed Taha Mohammed AhmedMohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed was a Sudanese journalist and editor of the newspaper Al-Wifaq.-Life:Taha was known for writing articles critical of many groups in the country, and in 2000 survived an assassination attempt after criticising the National Congress Party. In 2005 his paper reprinted an...
( - 2006)