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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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

In 2009, El Souwaim attended the inaugural IPAF Nadwa (Arab writers' workshop). In 2010, he was one of the Beirut39, a group of 39 Arab writers under the age of 40, chosen through a contest organised by Banipal magazine and the Hay Festival.[4] In 2011, El Souwaim received a grant by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) for his next project, a historical novel entitled The Last Sultan.[5]


Works in Arabic and in translation



See also



References


  1. "Nadwa : Arabic Fiction". 2011-04-12. Archived from the original on 2011-04-12. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  2. "Writers Select: New and Inventive Voices in Sudanese Literature". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  3. ""Souvenirs d'un enfant des rues", de Mansour El-Souwaim : les tourneboulantes aventures de "Kasshi le cassé"". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  4. Beirut39 (2010-03-23). "Beirut39: Writings from Sudan: An Interview with Mansour El Souwaim". Beirut39. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  5. "AFAC - Grantees". www.arabculturefund.org. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  6. el Souwaim, Mansour (2012). Boundaries of ash. Zain. OCLC 859062616.
  7. "Souvenirs d'un enfant des rues - Mansour El Souwaim". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-27.

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