13 Facts About Sudanese literature

Just as other cultural expressions, Sudanese literature reflects the hybrid identities of Sudan, that have been called Afro-Arabism by some scholars.

Oldest existing records of the precursors of a distinctive Sudanese literature can be dated to about 300 BCE and were written in the Meroitic script.

Arguably the most notable Sudanese literature writer is Tayeb Salih, who wrote both novels and short stories.

Sudanese literature is known for her flash fiction that had a strong influence on writers of the 1980s and young readers.

Sudanese literature's stories have been described as moving "across categories and outside the existing structures and genre constraints".

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Sudanese literature has published more than a dozen books, including poetry and nonfiction.

Sudanese literature's books were initially sold in local bookstores, but later confiscated and banned by the Sudanese authorities and were subsequently only available outside of Sudan.

Sudanese literature grew up and studied in Khartoum, and writes stories often dealing with the harsh living conditions of people from southern Sudan, who have endured discrimination and military dictatorship, or war and displacement in the northern part of Sudan.

Leila Aboulela, who was born in 1964 in Cairo, Egypt, to an Egyptian mother and a Sudanese literature father, and grew up in Khartoum, is a Sudanese literature writer who lives in Scotland and writes in English.

Sudanese literature's poems have appeared in several publications, including Poetry, Callaloo, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series, and in anthologies, such as The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism.

Sudanese literature became known as a spoken word poet and activist for refugees.

Sudanese literature's work has appeared in magazines such as World Literature Today and the African American Review, as well as in The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Tales from Many Muslim Worlds, among other publications.

Sudanese literature is the recipient of the Visionary Arts Memorial Reza Abdoh Poetry Prize 2021.