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Tayeb Salih
12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009
Tayeb Salih, died in London on 18 February 2009, aged 80.
His novel Season of Migration to the North was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics in 2001 as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century. The English translation by Denys Johnson-Davies was republished in 2003 in the Penguin Classics series. The work was translated into more than 20 languages.
Tayeb Salih was born in Northern Sudan in 1929 and educated at the University of Khartoum. He worked with UNESCO in Paris and was UNESCO’s Representative in the Arab Gulf States. He studied in the UK and made it his home.
He was a very quiet and modest person, but among friends and colleagues the heart and soul of any occasion, ready with jokes, with recitals of works of classical Arab poets such as Abu Nawas, with anecdotes and wise words.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 10 - /11, Spring 2001/Summer 2001
Banipal 34 - The World of Arab Fiction (2009)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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