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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin is one of the most prominent writers from Sudan today. He was born in Kassala, eastern Sudan, in 1963 and was living in the city of Khashm el-Girba until he was forced into exile abroad by the Islamist military regime in Khartoum. Although most of his major works are banned in his home country his books are secretly traded and circulated online among Sudanese readers of all generations.

Sakin’s seminal work, al-Jungo Masameer al-Ardh, which appeared in English as “The Jungo: Stakes of the Earth”, was the winner of Tayeb Salih’s Novel Award. His other novels include Maseeh Darfur (The Messiah of Darfur), al-Aashiq al-Badawi (The Bedouin Lover), and al-Khanadrees (The Khandarees).

Mayada Ibrahim is a translator, editor, and writer based in Queens, New York, with roots in Khartoum and London. She works in Arabic and English. Her translations have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published by University of Nebraska Press, Willows House, Archipelago Books, Dolce Stil Criollo, and 128 Lit. She was awarded the 2023 ALTA Travel Fellowship, participated as a judge on the PEN America Translation Award 2021, and wrote reviews on translations for Modern Poetry in Translation.

Adil Babikir is a Sudanese translator based in the UAE and is the author of The Beauty Hunters: Sudanese Bedouin Poetry, Evolution and Impact. His translations include The Jungo: Stakes of the Earth, a novel by Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin; Mansi: a Rare Man in his Own Way, by Tayeb Salih (winner of Sheikh Hamad Translation Award, 2020); The Messiah of Darfur, by Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin (accepted in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Winter 2015; Seven Strangers in Town, by Ahmad al-Malik.