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Hammour Ziada
Hammour Ziada is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Khartoum in 1977. He has worked for charitable and civil society organisations, and as a journalist for Sudanese newspapers, including
Al-Mustaqilla, Ajras al-Horriya, and Al-Jarida. He was Chief Editor of the cultural section of the Sudanese Al-Akhbar.
He is the
author of several works of fiction: A Life Story from Omdurman (short
stories, 2008), Al-Kunj (a novel, 2010), Sleeping at the Foot of the
Mountain (short stories, 2014). His second novel, The Longing of the
Dervish (2014), won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2014 and was shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
(IPAF). It is excerpted in Banipal 52 – New Fiction with the agreement of IPAF.
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