Safia Elhillo Named Wasafiri’s International Writer in Residence

A decade ago, a poem by an unknown Sudanese-American writer doing unusual things with Arabic script and English on the page caught the attention of the Brunel Prize judges,  and ours too! Safia Elhillo has been someone we have watched closely ever since: through the Sillerman Prize, The January Children and its excavation of colonial […]

Safia Elhillo Named Wasafiri’s International Writer in Residence
A decade ago, a poem by an unknown Sudanese-American writer doing unusual things with Arabic script and English on the page caught the attention of the Brunel Prize judges,  and ours too! Safia Elhillo has been someone we have watched closely ever since: through the Sillerman Prize, The January Children and its excavation of colonial […]