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Tayeb Salih
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) was a Sudanese novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the most significant Arabic-language authors of the twentieth century. Born in a village on the Nile in northern Sudan and educated at the University of Khartoum, he taught briefly before moving to England in the 1950s to join the BBC Arabic Service, where he became head of radio drama. He later served as director general of information in Qatar and worked for UNESCO in Paris and the Arab Gulf State...