Khartoum — Sudan has lost one of its outstanding literary critics, Abdelquddoos al-Khatim, who died on the first day of the Moslem Eid holiday, aged 71.
The late al-Khatim had established himself as one of the most outstanding literary critics in the Arab World, writing on novel, narrative and verse. He also made contributions in comparative literature and in translating a lot of texts from Russian and English, two languages he mastered with excellence, to Arabic. Al-Khatim also wrote a lot of modern verse.
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