A Sudanese writer and one of the greatest Arab writers of the twentieth century, born in the village of Karmakol, northern Sudan. He moved to Khartoum, where he joined the university, then left for Britain in 1952, where he worked in the Arabic section of the BBC, and held the...Read more position of director of the drama department. Then he moved to work in Qatar and then in Paris. He began to gain fame as a distinguished novelist when his novel "Season of Migration to the North" was published in 1966, for which he received the Arabic Novel Prize at the Arab Novel Conference in Cairo in 2005. The novel was translated into 56 languages and was chosen in 2002 among the 100 most important novels in the history of world literature. He wrote only four novels and a collection of short stories during a long journey of literature that began in 1960. His first short story was "A Date Palm by the Stream". He was honored at the Berlin International Festival of Literature on September 9, 2009. He died on February 18, 2009, at age 80.
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A Sudanese writer and one of the greatest Arab writers of the twentieth century, born in the village of Karmakol, northern Sudan. He moved to Khartoum, where he joined the...Read more university, then left for Britain in 1952, where he worked in the Arabic section of the BBC, and held the position of director of the drama department. Then he moved to work in Qatar and then in Paris. He began to gain fame as a distinguished novelist when his novel "Season of Migration to the North" was published in 1966, for which he received the Arabic Novel Prize at the Arab Novel Conference in Cairo in 2005. The novel was translated into 56 languages and was chosen in 2002 among the 100 most important novels in the history of world literature. He wrote only four novels and a collection of short stories during a long journey of literature that began in 1960. His first short story was "A Date Palm by the Stream". He was honored at the Berlin International Festival of Literature on September 9, 2009. He died on February 18, 2009, at age 80.