Autor/-in: Tayeb Salih

Adil Babikir is a Sudanese translator and writer based in the UAE. His published translations include Modern Sudanese Poetry: an Anthology (University of Nebraska Press, 2019); The Jungo: Stakes of the Earth, a novel by Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin (Africa World Press, USA, 2015); Literary Sudans: an Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan, edited by Bhakti Shringarpure, (Red Sea Press, USA, 2016); Summer Maze, a collection of short stories by Leila Aboulela, translated to Arabic (Dar al-Musawwarat, Khartoum, 2017). Babikir is a contributing editor of Banipal Magazine. Tayeb Salih (1929-2009) is renowned as one of the 20th century's greatest authors, particularly for his novel Season of Migration to the North, which was first published in Arabic in 1966 and in English translation by his friend Denys Johnson-Davies in 1969. In 2001 the Arab Literary Academy declared Season of Migration to the North to be 'the most important Arabic novel of the 20th century' and it remains a pivotal point in post-colonial narrative. It is translated into more than 20 languages, and has never been out of print in English, in a number of different editions.