Hammour Ziada

A journalist and novelist, he has performed volunteer work for charities and civil society organizations. He has worked for many Sudanese newspapers, including al-Mustaqilla, Ajras al-Hurriya and al-Jarida, and he was the culture editor for the Sudanese al-Akhbar newspaper. His published works of fiction include A Life Story from Omdurman (short stories, 2008), Al-Kunj (novel, 2010) and Sleeping at the Foot of the Mountain (short stories, 2014). He is best known for the novel, The Longing of the Dervish (2014), which won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize in 2014 and was shortlisted for the “Arabic Booker Prize” in 2015. Several of his works have been translated into English. He was awarded Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship of 2019, a residency that is hosted by St. Aidan's College of the University of Durham, UK.