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Amir Tag Elsir (, born 1960), also written Amir Taj al-Sir, is a Sudanese medical doctor and
novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...
, writing in
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. He has published more than 20 works of poetry, biography and novels, some of these translated into English or other languages. His novels deal with contemporary social issues, like poverty, the lives of refugees or diseases, such as
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.


Life and literary career

Tag Elsir was born in northern
Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
in 1960 and graduated from
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in Egypt. He lives and works as a medical doctor in
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,
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. His first novel ''Karmakul'' came out in 1988. In 2015, he won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel for his story of love and crime, entitled ''366.'' In addition, several of his other novels were shortlisted for the prestigious
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. Commenting on the novel ''Telepathy'', literary critic M.A. Orthofer said, Tag Elsir creates the fiction of "a successful Sudanese writer, who finds that his most recent novel, called ''Hunger's Hopes'', turns out to be closer to real life than he had any reason to believe." According to a review in Sudanese online magazine Andariya, his novels treat contemporary social issues "like the exploitation of the refugees and their harsh living conditions, and tackles the issue of poverty plaguing the citizens of the country."


Selected works in English translation

* ''French Perfume'' (2009) *''The Grub Hunter'' (2010). Pearson Education. *''The Korak council (2012)'' *''The Yelling Dowry'' (2013). Moment Digibooks Limited *''Telepathy'' (2015). Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing. * '' Ebola '76'' (2015). London:
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. *''366'' (2016)


See also

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Sudanese literature Sudanese literature consists of both oral as well as written works of fiction and nonfiction that were created during the cultural history of today's Republic of the Sudan. This includes the territory of what was once Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the ...
*
List of Sudanese writers This is a list of prominent Sudanese writers. Novelists and short story writers * Leila Aboulela (born 1964) * Fatin Abbas * Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin (born 1963) * Malkat Ed-Dar Mohamed (1920–1969) * Bushra Elfadil (born 1952), also poet * ...
*
Modern Arabic literature The instance that marked the shift in the whole of Arabic literature towards modern Arabic literature can be attributed to the Arab World-West contact during the 19th and early 20th century. This contact resulted in the gradual replacement of Cla ...


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A chapter from Amir Tag Elsir’s  ''Ebola ‘76'' in English translation
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