Tayeb Salih

Al-Tayeb Salih was a Sudanese writer, novelist and journalist, considered one of the most prominent Arab writers of the twentieth century. He is remembered for his narrative style and for the depth of his themes, and his best-known novel is Season of Migration to the North. He was born in 1929 and died in 2009. He is regarded alongside figures such as Gibran Khalil Gibran, Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz, and has been called the genius of the Arabic novel by many critics. His writings are renowned for portraying the clash between East and West and for presenting Sudanese identity in fine literary form.