Mansour El Souwaim
Sudanese fiction writer
Mansour El Souwaim (Arabic: منصور الصويم, born 1970 in Nyala, Sudan) is a Sudanese writer and journalist. He has published both novels and short stories. He was invited to join the first IPAF Nadwa (Arab writers' workshop) as well as the Beirut39 young Arab writers project, and has received international recognition through translations of his novels into English and French.
Biography
El Souwaim was born in Nyala in southern Darfur, and lives and works in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. He started writing in 1990 and was first published in 1995. Up to 2021, he has released five novels and two collections of short stories. His first novel was called Tukhoum Ar-Ramad (Boundaries of Ash) and translated into English in 2012. His second novel, entitled Dhakirat Shirrir (Memoirs of a Villain), received the Tayeb Salih Award for Creative Writing, named after the famous Sudanese novelist, in 2005. It was published in French in 2021 and received a positive review in the literary section of Le Monde newspaper.
In 2009, El Souwaim was invited by the inaugural IPAF Nadwa (Arab writers' workshop).
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