| Biography |
BIOGRAHY AFEIF ISMAIL ABDELRAZIG
Afeif Ismail Abdelrazig was born in Elhassahisa, Sudan in 1962. A published poet writer, playwright, artist and human-rights activist, Afeif arrived in Australia in 2003.
Afeif has many works of poetry published in Arabic: “Traps and some Tracks”, 2001 and “Bet of the Argil 2003”, “A Passage to the Aroma of Invisibility2006”, and “It’s your Bird 2007”. His poems have been published in English, Japanese and German.
Afeif poetry a have appeared in journals (incl. mascara, world is out, marginata, poet corner anthology, mena usa,),
Afeif book of poetry Bet of the Argil published in English 2005.
Afeif’s plays (in Arabic) have been produced in many cities, towns and villages in Sudan including Khartoum, from 1986 to 2000. These have included “The Race’, “The Night of the Nightingale”, “Doors”, “The Merchant”, “Starvation” and “The Centre of the Circle”.
Afeif was short-listed for the inaugural Kit Denton Fellowship for Writers of Courage in 2007, for which he submitted his plays “The Son of the Sun”, “The Labyrinth” and “The Shrouds or the Dead”.
“The Son of the Sun” has been commissioned by Barking Gecko Theatre Company in Western Australia and is scheduled for production in 2010. He was selected to workshop this play with trans-creator Vivienne Glance at the PWA Canberra Workshop in June/July 2008.
Afeif has been awarded the inaugural Australian National Playwrights’( ANPC) Bursary for 2008.
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| Publication History |
Published literary works in English:
- Bet of the Argil, Samantha International and Multicultural Publishing Inc. Perth 2005.
Published literary works in Arabic:
- Traps and some Tracks, El-Shareif Publishing House. Sudan, 2001
- Bet of the Argil, Egyptian Poetry Journal, Cairo 2003.
- It's your Bird. Al-Hadara Publishing, Egypt,2007
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