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Sudanese Novels Through Time

🇸🇩 Sudan

🇸🇸 South Sudan

“Recommendations for Sudanese novels in English often focus on mid-century Sudan on the cusp of independence. Instead, I wanted to present a short reading list that incorporated male and female perspectives of Sudan throughout different points in time, both from northern and southern Sudanese perspectives. This list is by no means comprehensive - I wanted it to hint at all that remains untranslated from the Sudanese literary scene, and at those writers who are usually unheard abroad.” ~ Razan Idris, Sudanese American writer, curator of the #SudanSyllabus, and PhD student in History.

11 books

River Spirit
Lyrics Alley
Edo's Souls
Season of Migration to the North
Ghost Season
The Jungo
The General and the Frogs
No Time to Mourn
Thirteen Months of Sunrise
The Grub Hunter
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