Sanhouri (born 1990), is a cultural essayist and literary author from Khartoum, who writes prose as well as poetry. Her story "Isolation" won the Al-Tayeb Salih Award for Creative Writing in 2009 and was published both in Arabic, and later in a French and English translation. Mirrors, her first collection of short stories, came out in Egypt and Sudan in 2014, and in 2019, she published her first novel, entitled Paradise. In 2021, Muhammad Ismail won the first prize of the Katara Award for the Arabic Novel for his short story “The Brothers of Yusuf”, selected from more than 400 entries. In an article about Sudanese female novelists, Sawad Hussain, who has translated several novels from Arabic to English, discusses the difficulties of literature by Sudanese female authors, like Amna al-Fadl, Ann El Safi, Rania Mamoun, Sara Al-Jack, or Zeinab Belail, to be translated and published in English. In the same article, Sawad Hussain mentions a bibliography of the Sudanese novel by Nabil Ghali that lists 476 novels published in Arabic in Sudan from 1948 to 2015, and 314 of them between 2000 and 2015. In May 2022, ArabLit magazine published several articles by and about Sudanese women writers, as well as other articles on literary works from Sudan in English translation. Literature in English by writers with Sudanese roots The earliest records of a writer from Sudan using the English language are the memoir and other literary works of Selim Aga, born around 1826 in Taqali, a historical state in the Nuba Hills, in modern-day central Sudan. As a young boy, he had been sold as slave to various owners and was eventually brought to Scotland in 1836. There, he was raised and educated as a free man by the family of Robert Thurburn, at the time British consul in Alexandria. In 1846, he published his autobiographical Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, written in "faultless idiomatic English". — The first Sudanese modern novel written in English was Their Finest Days (1969), by Al-Sirr Ḥasan Faḍl, a political novel about the rumor of a coup d’état two months after the October 1964 revolution. Taban Lo Liyong, who was born in southern Sudan in 1939 and studied in the 1960s in the United States, is one of Africa's well-known poets, writers of fiction and literary criticism. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Liyong wrote highly imaginative short narratives, such