Hammour Ziada

Hammour Ziada (Arabic: حمور زيادة‎, born 1979) is a Sudanese writer and journalist. He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and is currently a journalist based in Cairo. He has cut his teeth writing for a number of left-wing newspapers in Sudanese newspapers[1] and served as the culture editor of the Sudanese Al-Akhbar paper. Ziada has published several volumes of fiction, but is best known for his second novel The Longing of the Dervish (2014), which won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize in 2014 and was also nominated for the 2015 Arabic Booker Prize.[2]

He was born in Khartoum.

Works
  • A Life Story from Omdurman (short stories, 2008)
  • Al-Kunj (novel, 2010)
  • Sleeping at the Foot of the Mountain (short stories, 2014)
  • The Longing of the Dervish (novel, 2014)

Awards
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References
  1. "Hammour Ziada - Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. "Profile". Archived from the original on 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
  3. "2015". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
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