Lit & Found: ‘Sudanese Novels Through Time’
2023-03-17
Over at Kotobli, they have posted a new list; this time, of Sudanese novels through time. The list was curated by Sudanese-American writer Razan Idris.Continue Reading
New Short Fiction: Alhassan Bakri’s ‘Field Marshal Trapped in a Bathroom’
2023-02-20
When the field marshal heard the roar coming through the north-facing window of the spacious restroom, he was taken aback.Continue Reading
New Short Fiction from Sudan: ‘Nameless,’ by Mohammed Hamad Mahmoud
2022-05-26
“On joining primary school, I started leaving sufficient space for my non-existent name at the right margin of the page, followed by my father’s full name, who died and immortalized his name through me. I did the same in my English notebooks, at the left side of the page. I was the third person in all languages and descriptions in the universe.”Continue Reading
Remembering Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, an Avant Garde Pioneer of Sudanese Poetry
2022-05-25
“Were they a bundle of arugula,
displayed for sale to the westerners in the big city,
they’d have been spared the scorching heat.
Instead, they’d have been carefully placed on a wet matt in the shade,
their lips kept wet with sprinkled water
their cheeks sparkling with freshness and moisture.”Continue Reading
A Translator’s Canon of Sudanese Literature
2022-05-24
For our focus on Sudan, scholar, translator, and writer Adil Babikir highlights a few of Sudan’s most important literary greats.Continue Reading
Writers Select: New and Inventive Voices in Sudanese Literature
2022-05-19
If you were to choose 4-7 titles that would represent, to you, the most interesting books (perhaps experimental, challenging, or influential in some way) written by Sudanese writers in the last 10 years, what would they be? And (perhaps more importantly) why?Continue Reading
Fiction from Sudan: Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s ‘A Veteran Warrior’
2021-11-22
“Will they shoot again?” the little girl asks her mother.Continue Reading
Sudan Says Farewell to Two Greats: Poet Mohammed Taha al-Gaddal and Short-story Writer Eisa Al-Hilo
2021-07-15
Last week Sudan bid farewell to two of its most iconic figures: poet Mohammed Taha Al-Gaddal and novelist, short-story writer, and critic Eisa Al-Hilo. Both have helped shape Sudan’s literary scene over the past five decades.Continue Reading
‘Lalibela’: New Short Fiction by Abdulhafez Maryoud
2021-06-21
“That evening, the wind bellowed fiercely over the Lasata mountain’s heights.”Continue Reading
