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- Istīlā Qāytānū’s (?, Stella Gitano, Sudan) short story collection Zuhūr Thābilah (2004, English trans. Withered Flowers, 2018) was written between 1998 and 2002 in Arabic, with elements of colloquial Sudanese and Juba Arabic. The collection centres on the lives of South Sudan’s marginalized citizens. The first story for example, ‘A Lake the Size of a Papaya Fruit’, is about a girl and her grandmother who are left to themselves after the mother dies in labour, the father is killed by a wild buffalo and the grandfather is executed by British colonial forces (reference) (also in L: Languages and Dialects: Dialects: Sudanese dialect).
- Ḥāmid al-Nāẓir (1975-, Sudan) – Al-Ṭāwūs al-Aswad (‘The black peacock’, 2017), set in Sudan, this novel offers a window into Sudanese history from the 1970s to the 21st It centers the story of government advisor Tajj al-Dīn, one of the leaders of the Islamic Movement who was recruited on the basis that he murdered his mother, her husband, and his stepbrother when he was thirteen.
Refrences:
In order of appearance
- Ismaʾil Kushkush. 2015. “Telling South Sudan’s Tales in a Language Not Its Own.” www.nytimes.com, 25 December 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/world/africa/stella-gaitano-south-sudan.html (last accessed 27 January 2019)