His novels deal with contemporary social issues, like poverty, the lives of refugees or diseases, such as Ebola.
Tag Elsir was born in northern Sudan in 1960 and graduated from Tanta University in Egypt.
In 2015, he won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel for his story of love and crime, entitled 366.
Orthofer said, Tag Elsir creates the fiction of "a successful Sudanese writer, who finds that his most recent novel, called Hunger's Hopes, turns out to be closer to real life than he had any reason to believe.
"[4] According to a review in Sudanese online magazine Andariya, his novels treat contemporary social issues "like the exploitation of the refugees and their harsh living conditions, and tackles the issue of poverty plaguing the citizens of the country.