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Sudan novelist Tayeb Salih dies | Sudan novelist Tayeb Salih dies |
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Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih, who won fame with his 1966 novel Season of Migration to the North, has died in London, aged about 80. | |
One of the best-known Arabic novelists of the 20th Century, he spent much of his working life in Europe. | One of the best-known Arabic novelists of the 20th Century, he spent much of his working life in Europe. |
Salih was a broadcaster for the BBC Arabic Service and worked at the UN cultural organisation Unesco in Paris. He also worked in Qatar. | |
His works were translated into more than 20 languages. | |
The writer's experience of the UK was central to Season of Migration to the North, which deals with colonialism and sexuality from the point of view of a Sudanese outsider. | |
The book was declared "the most important Arabic novel of the 20th Century" in 2001 by the Damascus-based Arab Literary Academy. | The book was declared "the most important Arabic novel of the 20th Century" in 2001 by the Damascus-based Arab Literary Academy. |
Sudanese literary groups have long called for Salih to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. | |
Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz is the only Arab writer ever to have won the prestigious prize, in 1988. |