This is a list of prominent

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ese writers.

Novelists and short story writers

Leila Aboulela Leila Fuad Aboulela (Arabic:ليلى فؤاد ابوالعلا; born 1964) is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright of Sudanese origin based in Aberdeen, Scotland. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and moved to Scotland in 1990 where she began ...

(born 1964) * Fatin Abbas * Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin (born 1963) * Malkat Ed-Dar Mohamed (1920–1969) * Bushra Elfadil (born 1952), also poet * Ibrahim Ishaq (1946–2021) *

Ali El-Makk Ali El-Makk (13 February 1937 – October 1992) ( ar, علي المك), full name Ali Muhammad Ali El-Mak, also spelled Ali El-Maak or Ali Makk, was a Sudanese writer, translator and literary scholar, known for his short stories, translations f ...

(1937–1992), also translator and poet * Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim, also poet *

Jamal Mahjoub Jamal Mahjoub (born London 1966) is a mixed-race writer of British and Sudanese parents. He writes in English and has published eight novels under his own name. In 2012, Mahjoub began writing a series of crime fiction novels under the pseudonym ...

(born 1960), British writer with Sudanese roots *

Rania Mamoun Rania Ali Musa Mamoun (Arabic:رانيا مأمون) is a Sudanese fiction writer and journalist, known for her novels, poems and short stories. She was born in the city of Wad Medani in east-central Sudan and was educated at the University of Ge ...

(born 1979) * Ra'ouf Mus'ad (born 1937), also connected with

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* Hamed al-Nazir (born 1975) *

Tayeb Salih Tayeb Salih ( ar, الطيب صالح, aṭ-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ; 12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO. He is best k ...

(1929–2009) * Sabah Sanhouri (born 1990) * Mansour El Souwaim (born 1970) * Amir Taj al-Sir (born 1960) *

Hammour Ziada Hammour Ziada ( ar, حمور زيادة, born 1979) is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Omdurman. He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and currently works as journalist in Cairo. Before, he had been writing for a ...

(born 1977)

Poets

* Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub (1908–1976) *

Al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir Al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir (1912–1937) was a Sudanese poet who wrote in Arabic. He died from tuberculosis at the age of 25, and his work only became widely known after his death. Al-Tijani's poetry is generally classified as belonging to the Romant ...

(1912–1937) *

Gely Abdel Rahman Gely Abdel Rahman (1931 – 24 August 1990) ar, جيلي عبد الرحمن was one of the leading Sudanese poets of the second half of the 20th century. Early life Gely Abdel Rahman was born in Gez'irat Saay, or Saï (island), a small isla ...

(1931–1990) *

Salah Ahmed Ibrahim Salah Ahmed Ibrahim (; December 1933 – May 1993), was a Sudanese literary writer, poet and diplomat. He is considered one of the most important Sudanese poets of the first generation after the country's independence, marking the transition fr ...

(1933–1993) * Muhammed El-Faytori (1936–2015) *

Ibrahim 'Ali Salman Ibrahim 'Ali Salman ( ar, إبراهيم علي سلمان) (1937 – March 30, 1995) is the most famous contemporary poet of the Arab Manasir who inhabit the area of the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Northern Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, الس ...

(1937–1995) * Abed Elrahim Abu Zakrra (1943–1989) *

Mohammed Abdul-Hayy Mohammed Abdul-Hayy or Muhammad Abd al-Hayy (1 January 1944 – 23 August 1989, Ad-Damir, Sudan) was a member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics. Together with Ali El-Mak and Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, he is re ...

(1944–1989) *

Mahjoub Sharif Mahjoub Sharif (1 January 1948 – 2 April 2014), born as Mahjoub Muhammad Sharif Muhammad, was a Sudanese poet, teacher and Activism, activist for human rights. He became known in Sudan and other Arabic-speaking countries for his colloquial po ...

(1948–2014) * Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (born 1969) * Mohammed Abdalbari (born 1985) *

Safia Elhillo Safia Elhillo ( ar, صافية الحلو; born December 16, 1990) is a Sudanese-American poet known for her written and spoken poetry. Elhillo received a BA degree from the Gallatin School at New York University and an MFA in poetry from The Ne ...

(born 1990) * Najlaa Eltom (born 1975)

Political writers

Abel Alier Abel Alier Kwai (born June 23, 1933) is a South Sudanese politician and judge who served as Vice President of Sudan between 1971 and 1982 and as President of the High Executive Council of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region between 1972 and 1978. ...

(born 1933) *

Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim ( ar, فاطمة احمد ابراهيم; – 12 August 2017), was a Sudanese writer, women's rights activist and socialist leader. Early life Ibrahim was born in Khartoum. Sources give her birth date variously as 20 Decemb ...

(1933–2017) *

Sadiq al-Mahdi Sadiq al-Mahdi ( ar, الصادق المهدي, aṣ-Ṣādiq al-Mahdī; 25 December 193526 November 2020), also known as Sadiq as-Siddiq, was a Sudanese political and religious figure who was Prime Minister of Sudan from 1966 to 1967 and again f ...

(1936–2020) *

Abdel Khaliq Mahjub Abdel Khaliq Mahjub ( ar, عبد الخالق محجوب) (23 September 1927 – 28 July 1971) was a Sudanese communist politician. Mahjub was born in Omdurman. He served as the General Secretary of the Sudanese Communist Party until his death ...

(died 1971) * Muhammad Ibrahim Nugud (1930–2012) * Muhammad Sa'id al-Qaddal (1935–2008)

Satirical writers

* Jaafar Abbas

Islamic reformist writers

* Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (born 1946) *

Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, (1909 – 18 January 1985; ar, محمود محمد طه) also known as Ustaz Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, was a Sudanese religious thinker, leader, and trained engineer. He developed what he called the "Second Message of Islam ...

(1909–1985) * Hassan al-Turabi (1932–2016)

Journalists, literary critics and editors

* Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed (died 2006) * Abdul Raheem Glailati * Alfred Taban (born 1957) *