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• Chronicleطبقات ود ضيف اللهMuhammad al-Nur ibn Dayf Allah · 1805The lives of the saints and scholars of the Funj kingdom, recorded in the early nineteenth century by a jurist of Halfaya.Literature
• Poetryديوان الطبيعةHamza al-Malik Tambal · 1931not translated into EnglishA collection of nature poems published in Cairo, at a time when Arabic poetry sought to break with the cult of the Ancients.Literature
• Poetryإشراقةal-Tijani Yusuf Bashir · 1946not translated into EnglishThe posthumous collection of a young poet from Omdurman, between Sufi fervour and doubt.Literature
• NovelتاجوجOsman Muhammad Hashim · 1948not translated into EnglishThe most famous love legend of eastern Sudan, turned into a novel in the middle of the century by a poet from Berber.Literature
• Poetryأغاني أفريقياMuhammad al-Fayturi · 1955not translated into EnglishThe first collection of an Arab poet who wanted to be African, in the time of independence and free verse.Literature
• Poetryغابة الأبنوسSalah Ahmed Ibrahim · 1958not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a major Sudanese poet, which already raises the question of a mixed identity.Literature
• Novelإنهم بشرKhalil Abdallah al-Hajj · 1960not translated into EnglishOne of the very first Sudanese novels, a realist picture of Omdurman written in the mid-fifties.Literature
• NovelSeason of Migration to the Northموسم الهجرة إلى الشمالTayeb Salih · 1966The face-off between a village on the Nile and colonial England, in the aftermath of Sudanese independence.Literature
• Novelالفراغ العريضMalkat al-Dar Mohammad · 1970not translated into EnglishThe lives of the women of a house in Omdurman, under the authority of an adolescent, in pre-independence Sudan.Literature
• Poetryالعودة إلى سنارMuhammad Abdul Hai · 1973not translated into EnglishA poem that takes the kingdom of Sennar as a figure of an Afro-Arab identity, against the quarrel between partisans of Arabness and partisans of Africanness.Literature
• Feature filmTajoujeتاجوجGadalla Gubara · 1977A love legend of the tribes of eastern Sudan, brought to the screen with a popular singer in the leading role.Cinema
• Short filmTigers Are Better LookingHussein Shariffe · 1979A short film made in England, in which a Sudanese painter's exile becomes a visual poem.Cinema
• Short filmThe RopeالحبلIbrahim Shaddad · 1985A parable shot in the Sudanese desert for the film section of the Ministry of Culture.Cinema
• NovelNavigation of a RainmakerJamal Mahjoub · 1989A young man born in England looks for his place in his father's war-torn Sudan, on the eve of the military coup.Literature
• Short filmThe StationالمحطةEltayeb Mahdi · 1989A wordless short film on the Sudanese desert road, restored in Berlin in 2018.Cinema
• NovelThe TranslatorLeila Aboulela · 1999A Sudanese widow in Aberdeen, caught between grief, faith and a love that tests them both.Literature
• Novelوبال في كليمندوIbrahim Ishaq · 1999not translated into EnglishA disappearance in an invented village, told in turn by its inhabitants.Literature

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