Ahmed Al-Mustafa Al-Hajj
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| Ahmed Al-Mustafa Al-Hajj | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 June 1951 Omdurman, Sudan |
| 21 November 2020 (aged 68)21 November 2020 (aged 68) | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Sudanese |
| 💼 Occupation | Poet, storyteller, Journalist, Novalist |
| 🏅 Awards | His novel “Kendakis..Sitna bint Ajil” won the Al Tayeb Salih Award for novel creation in 2014 |
Ahmed Al-Mustafa Al-Hajj (Arabic: أحمد المصطفى الحاج) (27 June 1951 – 21 November 2020) was a Sudanese poet, writer, journalist and novelist. He is considered one of the most prominent short story writer in Sudan.[1]
Career[edit]
He was born on 27 June 1951 in the neighborhood of Wad Orru in Omdurman, after primary, middle and high school, he enrolled in the Post and Telegraph Institute but did not complete his degree. He then took up teaching and left it to work in mail, which he also abandoned, so he worked as a embroiderer, builder, and then as a journalist after the April uprising until the 30thof June 1989, he then emigrated to Libya, from which he returned to Sudan and worked in several Sudanese newspapers as a linguist, he also edited a file for the Al-Khartoum newspaper, with the title “Empty and Full”[2] (Arabic title: Fari’qah wa Malyanah).
Ahmed Al-Mustafa Al-Hajj “A Sudanese poet, storyteller, theatrical, journalist, producer of visuals and audio programmes, and novelists. He is one of the most prominent short story writers in Sudan and the southern part of the Arab world, and one of the representatives of the 1970s generation in writing, he also wrote short stories for children, and his novel (Kindakis) won the Al-Tayeb Salih International Prize for Written Creativity of the Year 2014, presented by the Abdul Karim Mirghani Cultural Center. In an interview, Ahmed Al-Mustafa Al-Hajj said he recalled, when he was six-year-old child, he was accompanying his grandmother on a trip to the town of Shendi, and traveling at that time was through a transportation vehicle called the Laore, and he remembers that there was a fight between his grandmother and the Laore’s assistance, who angrily told he: “oh God, if a demon comes, I will through you and your luggage out” she was in a hurry yet she responded firmly to him: “you wait for your daemons, we have ours with us”, and I remember that the assistant stood dazzled and didn’t move like a broken palm trunk. This incident was engraved in my mind and affected me so much, that I turned it into a Novel… and it’s no secret that I do my writing in one-flow, and this novel, despite its length (he doesn’t leave his job until he’s done with it), despite the difficulty of this method of writing a work in one stage, however, Hajj could only work through this method.
Works[edit]
He wrote the novel “Kendakis..Sitna bint Ajil” in 2013, the novel’s name “Kendakis” combines the name Balkis, the Queen of Sheba, and Kandake the title of the Nubia Queens. The novel represents ancient Sudanese history, and the clash of the past with the present while remaining within the lines of history and it shows the transformation of Sheba in the old Soba, where the alliance between Funj and the Abdalab happened, and the beginning of the Sennar civilization in the central Sudan.[3] He wrote many short and long stories.
Awards[edit]
His novel “Kendakis..Sitna bint Ajil” won the Al Tayeb Salih Award for novel creation in 2014, it’s presented by the Abdul Karim Merghani Cultural Center.[4]
Death[edit]
Ahmed Al-Mustafa Al-Hajj died on 21 November 2020, after long struggle with the disease.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ الثقافي, المحرر. "أحمد مصطفى الحاج.. من أبرز كتاب القصة السودانية وصاحب رواية كنداكيس". كتابات (in العربية). Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ↑ "القاص أحمد المصطفى الحاج - طقوس العفوية (1)". سودارس. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ↑ "كنداكيس.. رواية توغل في تاريخ السودان". www.aljazeera.net (in العربية). Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ↑ "أحمد الحاج يفوز بجائزة "الطيب الصالح"". www.aljazeera.net (in العربية). Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ↑ "رحيل الروائي أحمد المصطفى الحاج صاحب كتاب (كنداكيس)". صحيفة مداميك (in العربية). 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
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