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Place of Birth: Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan
About Mansour El Souwaim
- Mansour Mohammad El Souwaim (Arabic: ????? ??????) (born 1970) is a Sudanese writer.
- He was born in Nyala in southern Darfur.
- He lives and works in Khartoum.El Souwaim started writing in 1990 and was first published in 1995.
- He has released two novels and two collections of short stories to date.
- His first novel was called Tukhoum Ar-Ramad (The Boundaries of Ash).
- His second novel Dhakirat Shirrir received the Tayeb Salih Award for Creative Writing, named after the famous Sudanese novelist. In 2009, El Souwaim attended the inaugural IPAF Nadwa (writers' workshop).
- In 2010, he was one of the Beirut39, a group of 39 Arab writers under the age of 40 chosen through a contest organised by Banipal magazine and the Hay Festival.
- In 2011, El Souwaim received an AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture) grant for his current project, a historical novel entitled The Last Sultan.
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