| Toqa Hesham |
A Sudanese writer and one of the greatest Arab writers of the twentieth century. He was born in the village of Karmakol, northern Sudan, in 1929. He moved to Khartoum, where he joined the university, then left for Britain in 1952, where he worked in the Arabic section of the British Broadcasting Corporation (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 in 1966 when his novel Season of Migration to the North was published by Dar al-Awda in Beirut, which 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 Palm on the Gondola. He received the Arabic Novel Prize for his novel Season of Migration to the North at the Arab Novel Conference in Cairo in 2005. He was honored at the Berlin International Festival of Literature on September 9, 2009. He died on February 18, 2009, at the age of 80.
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