- Istilā 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 (reference). The collection centres on the lives of South Sudan’s marginalized citizens (also in W: Outside the Arab world: Sub- Sahara and West Africa: South Sudan).
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)