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 (1985; co-translator with Jana Gough) and Reem Bassiouney's The Pistachio Seller (2009). 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 (1979)
 * The Great Sermon Handicap, P.G. Wodehouse (1984)
 * The Arab Horse (for Citibank), 1984
 * Two Women in One, Nawal el-Saadawi 1986
 * Lawless World, Philippe Sandes (2006)
 * The Pistachio Seller, Reem Bassiouney (2009)
 * The Rule of Law, Lord Thomas Bingham (2010)
 * Criminal Law Reform in Sudan (Jointly)- Redress 2011
 * Sudan Arabic Texts (2011)
 * Voiceover translations for the Channel 4 documentary, The Holy War of Words.

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 (Khartoum performance)
 * Mahmood (UK performances)
 * An Evening With The Ancestors (UK performances)
 * Refugees – live performance at City Hall as part of the London Refugee Housing Conference 2002