Hammour Ziada

Hammour Ziada (Arabic: حمور زيادة, born 1979) is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Omdurman.[1] He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and currently works as journalist in Cairo. Also, he has been writing for a number of left-wing newspapers in Sudan[2] and served as the culture editor of the Sudanese Al-Akhbar newspaper.

Life and career

Ziada has published several volumes of fiction in Arabic, and is best known for his second novel Shawq al-darwīsh (The Longing of the Dervish), which won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize in 2014[3] and was also nominated for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.[4] This novel and several of his stories have appeared in English translation, including the anthology The Book of Khartoum (Comma Press, 2016)[5] as well as in Banipal magazine.[6]

In 2019, a feature film by Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, You Will Die at Twenty,[7] based on Hammour Ziada’s short story “Sleeping at the Foot of the Mountain” (“النوم عند قدمي الجبل“), won awards at the Venice International Film Festival, as well as at other international film festivals.[8]

His third novel The Drowning, translated by Paul G. Starkey, presents the social repercussions in a Sudanese rural town of a military coup in 1968, a few months before the end of the democratic era during the government of President Ismail al-Azhari.[9]

Original works in Arabic and translations
  • A Life Story from Omdurman (short stories, 2008)
  • Al-Kunj (novel, 2010)
  • Sleeping at the Foot of the Mountain (short stories, 2014)
  • Shawq al-darwīsh (The Longing of the Dervish) (novel, 2014), translated into English by Jonathan Wright in 2016, ISBN 978-9774167881
  • Al-Gharaq (novel, 2018), The Drowning, (2022), trans. Paul G. Starkey, ISBN 978-1623719067
  • The Void, short story, trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid. In Raph Cormack and Max Shmookler (eds.) The Book of Khartoum. (2016) ISBN 978-1905583720

Awards

See also

References
  1. "Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Hammour Ziada". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  2. "Hammour Ziada - Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. Lynx Qualey, Marcia (2014-12-11). "Young Sudanese Writer Wins Naguib Mahfouz Medal". ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly. Retrieved 2020-08-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Profile". Archived from the original on 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
  5. "The Book of Khartoum - Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  6. "Sudanese Literature Today (Spring 2016)". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Alala, Amjad Abu (2020-02-12), You Will Die at 20 (Drama), Islam Mubarak, Mustafa Shehata, Moatasem Rashed, Mahmoud Alsarraj, Andolfi, DUOfilm, Die Gesellschaft DGS, retrieved 2020-09-05
  8. Lynx Qualey, Marcia (2019-09-10). "Award-winning Film 'You Will Die at Twenty,' Based on Hammour Ziada Story". ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly. Retrieved 2020-09-05.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Lynx Qualey, Marcia (2021-09-20). "14 Translations To Look for in Fall 2021". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. Retrieved 2022-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. "2015". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
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