“To start with, a literary work is subject to taxes and customs, whereas a religious book is not.”
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Amir Tag Elsir’s ‘French Perfume’ Makes 2015 Best Translated Book Award Longlist
“Although this novel interrogates the ‘North-South’ relationship, it is very different from the seminal work by El Sir’s famous uncle, Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North.”
Al-Saddiq al-Raddi Collection Shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award
“What I can say, with utter confidence, is this is a shortlist that looks like no other; a shortlist that has brought pieces of work that might otherwise have gone unrecognised into conversation with each other…”
Performance in the Two Sudans: Against the ‘Normal Focus on Politics and War’
“In short, the task they had given themselves was to use what people call ‘the transformative power of theatre’ to foster debate, cohesion and self-reflection in the Two Sudans.”
‘The Book of Khartoum’ Wins PEN Promotes Award
English PEN just announced the winners of their “PEN Promotes” and “PEN Translates” awards. Among the four “PEN Promotes” titles is Comma Press’s forthcoming Book of Khartoum, ed. Raph Cormack and Max Shmookler.
‘He Tells Tales of Meroë’: Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Releases Dual-language, Limited-edition Collection
“On Thursday, Sept. 24, Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq al-Raddi will launch ‘He Tells Tales of Meroë: Poems for the Petrie Museum.'”
‘The Book Of Khartoum’ Wins 2015 PEN Translates Award
The majority of winners are translated from translated from Spanish (4), French (3), and German (2), but there are also books from the Danish, Tamil, Mandarin, and Arabic.
Monthly Sudanese Used-book Fair, Mafroush, Is Back
Khartoum’s popular used-book fair, temporarily shuttered because of the fear of government crackdowns on civil society, was back yesterday: The popular, vibrant used-book fair had been stopped at the end of last year, just before the shutdown of the Sudanese Writers Union…. Read More ›
On the Heels of the Sudanese Writers Union Shutdown, Glittering Literary Awards
Now, Mahfouz Bushra writes, Sudanese voices against the award have grown even louder.
Sudanese Writers Respond to Union Shutdown
“[A]s a direct effect, the banning halts the process of building a counter discourse, a discourse that contributes something to the idea of the citizen and equality.”
Mawred Grants for Young Writers Go To Rania Mamoun, Soukaina Habiballah
This year, the literature jury was made up of prominent literary artists: Syrian author Khaled Khalifa, Moroccan poet Yassin Adnan, and Algerian novelist Bachir Mefti.
Against the Writers Union Shutdown, Read Stories and Poems from Sudan
“Meanwhile, we can at the very least draw our attention to Sudanese literature.”
