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
#BulaqBookClub: ‘Season of Migration to the North’
2020-11-21
What is it about this novel that resists interpretation and demands re-reading? What makes it iconic? And why have Salih’s other books received so little attention?Continue Reading
Adil Babikir on ‘Mansi’: A Rare Book, and a Joy to Translate
2020-11-11
“Mansi came out in weekly instalments, starting in 1988, before being collected together and published in 2004. It is a unique type of writing, a combination of biography, autobiography, political analysis, philosophical insight – with a great sense of humor and satire. Translating this work was a joyful experience.”Continue Reading
‘Dear Tayeb Salih’
2020-11-02
This letter originally appeared in the debut issue of ArabLit Quarterly: Beginnings, published in the Fall of 2018.Continue Reading
First Bulaq Book Club Pick: ‘Season of Migration to the North’
2020-10-31
All are invited to read or re-read Season of Migration to the North, look through other books by Salih, and join Bulaq on November 19 (or thereafter).Continue Reading
6 to Read on Tayeb Salih Day
2020-07-12
“I must have been very young at the time. While I don’t remember exactly how old I was, I do remember that when people saw me with my grandfather they would pat me on the head and give my cheek a pinch – things they didn’t do to my grandfather. “Continue Reading
Available Now: A Translation of Tayeb Salih’s ‘Mansi, A Rare Man in His Own Way’
2020-05-14
Salih went on to publish four novels as well as many other books, including his popular منسي إنسان نادر على طريقته (Mansi: A Rare Man in His Own Way), published in 2004, five years before the author’s death.Continue Reading
An Artist’s Homage to ‘Season of Migration to the North’
2019-05-18
“Omar Khalil’s prints explore Salih’s 20th century masterpiece, a tale of migration from South to North and the pain of return.”Continue Reading
On Banipal’s ‘100 Best Arabic Novels’
2018-11-19
“Usefully, the Banipal list is not just a list, but also includes brief introductions to both the works and their authors, as well as some contextualization.”Continue Reading
