Birth name Bushra Elfadil Role Writer Name Bushra Elfadil | Years active 1970– | |
Origin village of Araggi in the Northern State of Sudan | ||
Occupation(s) lecturer in Russian | ||
Bushra Elfadil (Arabic: بشرى الفاضل, born 1952) is a Sudanese writer and poet.
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Career
Elfadil was born in 1952 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.
Personal life
Elfadil has a daughter and four sons. One of them, Vasiliy pursues his career as a doctor.
Recognition
Elfadil won the prestigious Caine Prize 2017 with "The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away", published in The Book of Khartoum - A City in Short Fiction.