Tayeb Salih was born in Northern Sudan in 1929 and educated at the University of Khartoum. After a brief period working as a teacher, he moved to London to work with the BBC Arabic Service. Salih later worked as Director-General of Information in Qatar in the Arabian Gulf; with Unesco in Paris and an Unesco's representative in the Arab Gulf States. Tayeb Salih is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Arab writers of the 20th century, he died in 2009.

Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translation does the original justice

1. 5/5

   Mörkrets hjärta i motsatt riktning

   Season of Migration to the North av Tayeb Salih är en pendang till Joseph Conrads "Mörkrets hjärta" i vilken en engelsman under kolonialismens tidevarv färdas uppför Kongofloden med västvärldens syn på Afrika och dess människor i packningen. Tayeb Salihs berättelse gör färden i motsatt håll, från Sudan till London. Vi möter den europeiska kulturen och livsstilen sedd och upplevd ur en högintellektuell sudanes' synvinkel. Spännande, engagerande, utmanande, viktig.

   Björn F

   27 mars 2026

Tayeb Salih was born in Northern Sudan in 1929 and educated at the University of Khartoum. After a brief period working as a teacher, he moved to London to work with the BBC Arabic Service. Salih later worked as Director-General of Information in Qatar in the Arabian Gulf; with Unesco in Paris and an Unesco's representative in the Arab Gulf States. Tayeb Salih is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Arab writers of the 20th century, he died in 2009.

Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translation does the original justice

1. 5/5

   Mörkrets hjärta i motsatt riktning

   Season of Migration to the North av Tayeb Salih är en pendang till Joseph Conrads "Mörkrets hjärta" i vilken en engelsman under kolonialismens tidevarv färdas uppför Kongofloden med västvärldens syn på Afrika och dess människor i packningen. Tayeb Salihs berättelse gör färden i motsatt håll, från Sudan till London. Vi möter den europeiska kulturen och livsstilen sedd och upplevd ur en högintellektuell sudanes' synvinkel. Spännande, engagerande, utmanande, viktig.

   Björn F

   27 mars 2026