Tayeb Salih

Tayeb Salih was born on 12 July 1929 in Karmakol, near Al Dabbah, in northern Sudan, into a family of small farmers and religious teachers. After the Gordon Memorial College, the future University of Khartoum, and a brief spell in teaching, he left in 1952 for London, where he headed the drama section of the BBC Arabic Service. He was then director general at the Ministry of Information of Qatar, spent ten years at Unesco, in Paris, and for more than ten years kept a weekly column in the magazine al-Majalla. He died on 18 February 2009.

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• NovelSeason of Migration to the Northموسم الهجرة إلى الشمالTayeb Salih · 1966Literature