Fāris Bilālah wa al-asad, c2010: t.p. (Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin) spine (A. Baraka Sakin) p. 4 of cover (b. 1963 in Kassala, eastern Sudan; family from Darfur and Chad; author of novels and collections of short stories)
GIRIFNA, Sudanese Non-violent Resistance Movement website, Sudanese writer Abdul Aziz Baraka Sakin fears for his life, posted Feb. 14, 2013, viewed Sep. 8, 2014 (Baraka Sakin; returned from Egypt in 1992, worked as secondary school teacher; repeatedly forced by govt. to retire; in 2005 his book On the Sidewalks (Ala Hamish al Arsifa), printed by the Ministry of Culture, was confiscated and burned, the first of his books to be confiscated; his book The Jungo: nails of the earth (al Jango Masameer al Ard) won a national literary prize but was confiscated/banned in 2010; he has therefore printed seven of his books in Egypt) |u http://www.girifna.com/7887