Mohammed Abdul-Hayy or Muhammad Abd al-Hayy was a member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics.
10 Facts About Mohammed Abdul-Hayy
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Mohammed Abdul-Hayy's father worked as an architect, and his mother was the daughter of an architect.
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Mohammed Abdul-Hayy initially studied medicine, but his interests led him to change his area of study to the arts.
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Already as a student, articles by Mohammed Abdul-Hayy were published in Sudanese newspapers, such as Al-Rayaam.
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Mohammed Abdul-Hayy was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from Khartoum University in 1967, and then appointed as teaching assistant in the English department.
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Mohammed Abdul-Hayy then got a scholarship and was sent to England, where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in English literature from Leeds University in 1970.
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Mohammed Abdul-Hayy served as head of the Department of English from 1978 to 1980.
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Mohammed Abdul-Hayy died at the early age of 45 on 23 August 1989 in Soba University Hospital, Khartoum.
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In 1973, Mohammed Abdul-Hayy released his poem Al Awada alla Sennar.
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Together with other writers of the early 1960s, such as Ali El-Makk, Al-Nur Othman Abkar, Yusef Aidabi, and Abdullah Shabu, Mohammed Abdul-Hayy is considered as one of the founders of the literary "Forest and the Desert School", where forest refers to the rainforests of the South and desert to northern Sudan.