Salah Ahmed Ibrahim

Salah Ahmed Ibrahim was born in 1933 in Omdurman, studied there, then entered the Faculty of Arts of the University of Khartoum in 1954. He taught in Ghana, then entered the diplomatic service: he served in Sudan's mission to the United Nations and was ambassador in Algiers, before becoming an adviser at the embassy of Qatar in Paris. A poet, he counts among the pioneers of free verse in Sudan, and his poem Maria, set to music, has become one of the best known in the country. He died in 1993 in Paris.

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• Poetryغابة الأبنوسSalah Ahmed Ibrahim · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature