Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi was born in Sudan in 1969 and grew up in Omdurman-Khartoum where he still lives. In 1986, at the age of 17, he won first prize in a major poetry competition, as a result of which he became the youngest member of the Sudanese Writers’ Union. His first two books, Ghina’ al-‘Uzlah (Songs of Solitude), and Matahat al-Sultan (The Sultan’s Labyrinth), were published simultaneously in 1996, immediately establishing him as a poet of great significance. His third collection, Aqasi Shashat al-Isgha’ (The Limits of the Screen of Listening), appeared in 2000 and a volume of his collected poems was published in 2009.