Muhammad Abdul Hai

Muhammad Abdul Hai was born in 1944, in Khartoum according to some, in al-Damer according to others. His father, an engineer in the topographical service, travelled the provinces of Sudan with his family, and the child acquired there the knowledge of the regions that he later put into verse. A pupil at the Hantoub lycée, then a student of English literature at the University of Khartoum, he continued his studies at Leeds and defended at Oxford a thesis on the influence of English and American poetry in Arab romanticism. A professor of comparative literature at Khartoum, he died there on 23 August 1989.

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• Poetryالعودة إلى سنارMuhammad Abdul Hai · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature