Al-Tayyib Salih is a famous Sudanese writer, he was born in 1929 in a in the middleclass family in Karmakol, a small town in the part of the Merowe District Northern Province of Sudan. He studied at the University of Khartoum. Then he went to continue his education in England. In London Salih studied international law, then headed the department of Arabic broadcasting in BBC. After returning home, he led the Sudanese radio, then he went to Qatar, where he worked as a general director at the Ministry of Information. He did a lot for the cultural development and education in this small principality. He worked 10 years at UNESCO as a representative of UNESCO in the Arab Gulf States. Al-Tayyib Salih one of a few multicultural writers in Arab region. He spent his childhood in a remote Sudanese province in addition to his deep perception of north Sudan folk culture and Arabic literature. On the other hand his long staying in Europe and the influence of English literature and philosophy; enriched his work, and it gives it a unique originality. Due to the circumstances of most of his work created in diaspora, which could not affect his style. However, from the pages of his works gets Sudan lively, with its unique aroma, its nature and people.