Tahir ANNOUR
Country: Chad
Year of Birth: 1990
A journalist and novelist from Chad, Tahir Annour was trained as a lawyer.
He was the editor of N’djaména Aldjadida and worked in the Department of Justice. He now serves as a communications editor at the Sharjah Children Foundation. He currently lives in the UAE.
Tahir Annour received a special mention for the Ibn Battuta Prize for Travel Literature, in the diaries category, in 2024, for An African in Palestine.
He is also the winner of the Tawfiq Bakkar Award for the Arabic Novel in Tunisia, for Qudala; and the recipient of the King Faisal Short Story Prize, for Gold Earth (2015, Chad)
Titles
An African in Palestine | Yawmiyat Afriqi fi Filastin (2024)
Under a low sky | Tahta Sama’ Wati’a (2024)
Qudala | Ghudala (2023)
The Story from Earth to Sky: Days in Lebanon | Hikayat al-Ard lil-Samāʾ: Ayyam fī Lubnan (2023)
The Barbed Wire Farm | Mazraat al-Aslak al-Sha’ika (2022)
Root Ashes | Ramad al-Juzur (2019)
Symphony of the South| Symphonyat al janoub (2019)
In the press
“Symphony of the South”
“The novel confirms that the Arabic language in Chad is not marginal or poorly used, for its language is beautiful to the extreme, splendid… a language brimming with poetic imagery, skillful expression, and precise description, a captivating language. “Symphony of the South” promises a unique and distinctive novelist, from whom much is expected.” — Al Quds
“The reader cannot help but marvel at the precision of the artistic depiction and the well-crafted arrangement of the stories’ aesthetic images…. The writer offers a purposeful critique of political, ethnic, and religious conflict through his characters… He addresses the events that troubled his society and continue to trouble it honestly, without neglecting history and the causes of the conflict, and without turning into a historian…and this is the essence of art.” — Al Mohagig
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