Tayeb Salih | |
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Born | 12 July 1929 Karmakol, Sudan |
Died | 18 February 2009 London, United Kingdom | (aged 79)
Occupation | Novelist, columnist, civil servant |
Language | Modern Standard Arabic |
Alma mater | University of Khartoum, University of London |
Literary movement | Postcolonialism |
Notable works | Season of Migration to the North, The Wedding of Zein |
Tayeb Salih (Arabic: الطيب صالح, romanized: aṭ-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ; 12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009)[1] was a Sudanese writer, novelist, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO. He is best known for his novel Season of Migration to the North, considered to be one of the most important novels in Sudanese Arabic literature.[2][3] His novels and short stories have been translated into English and more than a dozen other languages.[4]