Fiction
Bushra Fadil: “Phosphorus at the Bottom of a Well”
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin: ‘A Veteran Warrior”
Ibrahim Ishaq: “The Opening in Kaltooma’s Fence”
Salah H. Ahmed: “The Bearded One”
List: 9 Stories by Sudanese Women in Translation
Poetry
Mohammed Ali Ahmed: “Can You Hear the Call?“
Iged al-Jalad: “Nura“
‘A Drizzle of Bullets’: Poetry of Dissent in Sudan
The Drip of Nectar: Poetry by Sudanese Icon Mohammed El-Makki Ibrahim
Interviews
Adil Babikir: On ‘Mansi’: A Rare Book, and a Joy to Translate
Omayma Abdullah: On the Writer’s Heart
Rania Mamoun: Sudanese Short Stories and ‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’
Amir Tag Elsir: On How the Internet Has Changed His Writing and the Inspiration of ‘Majnoon Leyla’
Hammour Ziada: On Who’s Missing from ‘Arabic Booker’ Longlists
Nonfiction
On the Khartoum Omnibus: Stories of Sudan’s Cosmopolitanism
On Sudanese Playwright-Poet Adil Ibrahim Muhammed Khair
The Drip of Nectar: Poetry by Sudanese Icon Mohammed El-Makki Ibrahim
Beating — or Joining — Literary Piracy in Sudan
Remembering Muhammad Wardi: Censored, Banned, and Beloved
Trading Misery for Death: The Tragic Death of a Sudanese Poet
Denys Johnson-Davies on How Tayeb Salih Got His Start
An Ever-so-short History of the ‘Complex, Capacious’ Sudanese Short Story
In Focus: Sudan
This May 2022, we launch our third “In Focus” section. For our “New & Inventive Voices” feature, we asked a number of Sudanese writers to put together a list of their highlights from among recent books, and for “Women Recommend: Sudanese Women Writers,” women writers give an overview of the landscape as well as their favorites by other women. We also have new fiction and poetry in translation, as well as interviews, essays, art, and more. Explore more special features below, with more from our archives on the left.
Women recommend:
What’s been published:
Violence “is carried on the back of the writer … who must write it all down. And in the midst of this storm of violence, there is the struggle for life, a flash of joy and pleasure.”
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
Short fiction:
Coming May 4:
Coming May 5:
On buying books:
Recommended anthologies:
Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology, ed. Adil Babikir
Literary Sudans, ed. Bhakti Shringarpure.
Book of Khartoum, ed. Max Shmookler and Raph Cormack.
Banipal 55: Sudanese Literature Today, ed. Samuel Shimon.
The Common 19, Sudan section ed. Hisham Bustani and Jennifer Acker
Online:
Words Without Borders: Coming into Focus: Sudanese Women Writers
