Nights of Musk: Stories from Old Nubia »

HAGGAG HASSAN ODDOUL was born to parents who had left their native village in the Nubian region of southern Egypt. He was a construction worker on the Aswan High Dam, then served in the Egyptian armed forces during the War of Attrition and the October 1973 War. He began writing at the age of forty, and has written short stories, novels, and plays. Nights of Musk was awarded the State Prize for Short Stories in 1990.

Anthony Calderbank has translated several works of modern Arabic fiction, including Haggag Hassan Oddoul’s Nights of Musk (AUC Press, 2005) and Yousef al-Mohaimeed’s Wolves of the Crescent Moon (AUC Press, 2007). He lives and works in Saudi Arabia.

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