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Jamal Mahjoub
Jamal Mahjoub is an award winning writer of mixed British/Sudanese heritage, born in London in 1960. He was raised in Khartoum where the family remained until 1990. He went back to the UK after being awarded a scholarship to Atlantic College in Wales, and then going on to study Geology at Sheffield University. He returned briefly to the Sudan in search of employment after which he decided to dedicate himself to writing.
Since then Mahjoub has lived in a number of places, including London, Denmark and currently Spain. He has worked in a variety of sectors to support his writing, including telemarketing, catering and futon making and has also worked as a librarian, freelance journalist and translator from Arabic, Danish and Catalan.
His work has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch and Turkish. Travelling With Djinns (Chatto & Windus 2003) won the Prix de l’Astrolabe award at the Etonnants Voyageurs Festival in France in 2004. The Cartographer’s Angel won the Heinemann/Guardian African Short Story Prize in 1993. The short story The Obituary Tango was shortlisted for the Caine Prize 2005. His novel, The Drift Latitudes (Chatto & Windus) was published in 2006. Nubian Tango was published in French in 2006, and an Kindle English edition in 2012.
He has three novels set in Cairo, written under the penname Parker Bilal, The Ghost Runner, Dogstar Rising and The Golden Scales, all published by Bloomsbury.
For more, go to www.jamalmahjoub.com.
Contributor's Issues
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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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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