South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) seized a new novel entitled The Day Azrael Committed Suicide by Arthur Gabriel Yak in the capital Juba.
The novel begins at a police station in Juba where an ethnic massacre took place on 16 December 2013 and no trial was held. Then the novel takes another turn instead of being primarily a political novel, it starts addressing the tribal issues from a purely sociological perspective.
But multiple sources from Al Wehda newspaper confirmed to Radio Tamazuj that the security confiscated all the remaining copies of the new novel for sale.
Arthur Gabriel Yak is a young South Sudanese writer published his first collection of short stories It Does Not Matter, and You’re From There in 2009. He was awarded an AFAC grant in 2014 to work on his novel The Day Azrael Committed Suicide.
Correction: An earlier version of this story wrongly stated that Abraham Malek of Al Wehda newspaper had been contacted and declined to comment on the matter. He was not contacted.