Bushra Elfadil

Bushra Elfadil (Arabic: بشرى الفاضل‎, born 1952) is a Sudanese writer and poet.

Career

Elfadil was born in the village of Araggi in the Northern State of Sudan. He moved with his family to the village of Wad El-bor in the state of Al Jazirah in central Sudan, however, where he received his primary education and where his family still lives today. He studied the Russian Language in Russia and received his PhD in Russian Language, after which he returned to Sudan, where he was appointed as a lecturer in the Russian Language Department in the Faculty Of Arts at Khartoum University. He worked there until he was expelled in the early 1990s along with many other lecturers and hundreds of student after protests about the military coup by Omar al-Bashir. He currently lives in Saudi Arabia.

Works

• Hikkayat Al-bint Al-lti Tarrat Asafiraha (The Story of the girl whom her birds´ flew), a collection of short stories.
• Azrraq Alyamama
• Al-hossan Altayer (The Flying Horse), a collection of children stories, lost by the publisher.
• Gassied fie El-zil (Poems On The Shadow), to be published

External links

• Elfadil (in Arabic)