Al-ssadiq Al-raddi
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Al-ssadiq Al-raddi is a Sudanese writer and poet who was born in Omdurman
, Sudan
.
(freedom), Aladwaa, Al Ayam (The Days) and currently works in Al-sudani newspaper as head of cultural editor department.
Al-ssadiq contributed by recited his poetry in Abu Dhabi
International for Book Fair in April 2004.Al-ssadiq has poetry translated to English by The Centre of Poetry Translation CPT, School of Oriental and African Studies
, University of London
and the translation had done by Sudanese poet Hafiz Kheir, poet Sarah Maguire
and poet Mark Ford
. He recited his poetry in many British cities which organize by the CPT, also he contributed in many workshop for poetry translation in Britain. Also he contributed in the congress of translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic which held under auspices of The British Culture Council festival with the London International Book Fair 2006. In March 2006 he invited by Poetry Cafe in London to recite a poem.
Omdurman
Omdurman is the second largest city in Sudan and Khartoum State, lying on the western banks of the River Nile, opposite the capital, Khartoum. Omdurman has a population of 2,395,159 and is the national centre of commerce...
, Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
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Career
Al-ssadiq has been publishing poetry since he was 15 when his poem The Wind was published in the literary journal Al-Shawa. Al-ssadiq was awarded the prize of Youth Poets in 1986 and in the same year he got a member of Sudanese Writers Union. Al-ssadiq works as an editor in many Sudanese Newspapers, like AlhoriaAlhoria
Alhoria, or in English Freedom, is one of the prominence Sudanese newspapers.It was founded by Elhaj Warrag, who has been the chief editor since the time of foundation....
(freedom), Aladwaa, Al Ayam (The Days) and currently works in Al-sudani newspaper as head of cultural editor department.
Al-ssadiq contributed by recited his poetry in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...
International for Book Fair in April 2004.Al-ssadiq has poetry translated to English by The Centre of Poetry Translation CPT, School of Oriental and African Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies
The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...
, University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
and the translation had done by Sudanese poet Hafiz Kheir, poet Sarah Maguire
Sarah Maguire
-Life:Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing . Her horticultural career has had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems The Florist's at Midnight brought together all her poems about plants and gardens, and she edited the...
and poet Mark Ford
Mark Ford
-Life:He went to school in London, and attended Oxford University and, as a Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University. He studied for his doctorate at Oxford University on the poetry of John Ashbery, and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writing, including on Raymond...
. He recited his poetry in many British cities which organize by the CPT, also he contributed in many workshop for poetry translation in Britain. Also he contributed in the congress of translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic which held under auspices of The British Culture Council festival with the London International Book Fair 2006. In March 2006 he invited by Poetry Cafe in London to recite a poem.
Works
- "Ghnna Aloazalla" The Singing of Solitude,poetry collection published in 1996, 2001 in Khartoum
- "Mattahat Elsoltan" The Dilemma of The Sultan,poetry collection published also in 1996, 2001
- Agassi Shaashatt Alasika,poetry collection.Published twice 2000,2001.
External links
- Sudanese Society for Research on Arts and Humanities - poetry - Alsadig Alradi, accessed January 8, 2007