Osman Nusairi
Osman Nusairi is a playwright and award-winning translator of Sudanese origin. He has translated two Arabic novels into English - Nawal el-Saadawi's Two Women in One and Reem Bassiouney's The Pistachio Seller. The latter work won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award in 2009.
He worked as a theatre director in the Sudanese National Theatre and as a Lecturer of Drama at Khartoum Institute of Music and Drama in 1978, having studied Theatre Direction at East 15 Acting School and University College, Cardiff University.
Major translations
- The Strong Breed, Wole Soyinka
- The Great Sermon Handicap, P.G. Wodehouse
- The Arab Horse, 1984
- Two Women in One, Nawal el-Saadawi 1986
- Lawless World, Philippe Sandes
- The Pistachio Seller, Reem Bassiouney
- The Rule of Law, Lord Thomas Bingham
- Criminal Law Reform in Sudan - Redress 2011
- Sudan Arabic Texts
- Voiceover translations for the Channel 4 documentary, The Holy War of Words.
Plays
Broadcast by the [BBC World Service] in English
- Life and Times of Christopher Abdullah
- The Town Crier
- The Village Teacher
- The Intermediate Technologist
- Gordon of Khartoum
- The Desert Trek of Re-education
Stage plays
- Board of Discipline
- Mahmood
- An Evening With The Ancestors
- Refugees – live performance at City Hall as part of the London Refugee Housing Conference 2002