Sudanese · b. 1929
Tayeb Salih was a Sudanese writer regarded as one of the most important Arab novelists of the twentieth century, author of the masterpiece Season of Migration to the North.
Tayeb Salih wrote in Arabic and drew on his Sudanese village background to explore the encounter between Africa and Europe, tradition and modernity, colonizer and colonized.
His masterpiece, Season of Migration to the North (1966), tells the haunting story of a brilliant Sudanese man’s destructive experience in England and his return home, in a profound meditation on colonialism, identity, and revenge; it was named by Arab writers as one of the finest Arabic novels of the twentieth century. He also wrote The Wedding of Zein and other fiction.
Salih is celebrated as a foundational figure of modern Arabic and postcolonial literature, whose work remains strikingly resonant.
by Tayeb Salih
Tayeb Salih's landmark Sudanese novel, often called the finest Arabic novel of the twentieth century. A young man returns from England to his village on the Nile and becomes obsessed with the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed, whose violent history in colonial London mirrors and shadows his own.
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