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Wikipedia article
'The Waterman's Prophecy' is a novel by the Sudanese author Hamid Al-Nazer. The novel was first published in 2015 by Dar al-Tanwir for publishing and distribution in Beirut. It was longlisted for the international award for the Arabic novel in 2016, known as the Arabic Booker award.
About the novel
In The Waterman's prophecy, the Sudanese writer Hamid Al-Nazer tells a story that took place in the sixties of the last century in the town of Ajaib, which is located on the hills near the Eritrean coast. The grandchildren seek to be liberated from enslavement at the hands of their loyalists the pegs. The "commander", who has wide authority, proposes to marry the beautiful "Fatima" who belongs to the grandchildren, and the grandchildren view the matter as an important opportunity that may achieve their freedom based on an ancient mysterious prophecy they inherited that ensures their liberation from slavery, while the pegs are suspicious of that step. This conflict coincides with the outbreak of the armed revolution in Eritrea for independence from Ethiopia. The revolution, with its successes and failures, and the struggles led by it, constitute a broad temporal and objective background for the overall events of the novel.
About the writer
Hamid Al-Nazer is a Sudanese journalist and novelist born in Sudan in 1975. He currently works in Qatar TV. He has worked as a broadcaster for the Sudanese Al-Shorouk channel, a news reporter for the MBC channel from Sudan, and a broadcaster for the Sudanese Blue Nile Channel and Sudanese Radio. He has 4 published novels: Freej Al Marar (2014), which won the 2014 Sharjah Prize for Arab Creativity, and the 2014 Vodafone Qatar Prize for Novel, The Saqqa Prophecy (2015), which was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016, The Black Peacock ( 2017) is also longlisted for the award in 2018, and Green Eyes (2020).
Other novels by the writer
* Frij Al-Murr (novel) 2014
* black peacock 2017
* Green Eyes 2020
References
Category:2015 novels
Category:Sudanese novels
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