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Nadifa Mohamed

Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, in 1981 and moved to Britain at the age of four. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won the Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award. Her second novel, Orchard of Lost Souls, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Prix Albert Bernard. Mohamed was selected for the Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her book The Fortune Men was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. She is currently Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.


“Loyalty Rather Than Love,” by Nadifa Mohamed

Celebrating This Year's PEN World Voices Festival
May 11, 2022  By Nadifa Mohamed
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Nadifa Mohamed on the Long, Strange Journey of Her Uncle Kettle

“My sense of belonging to Hargeisa, the city of my birth but not his, has dissipated in his absence.”
October 4, 2021  By Nadifa Mohamed
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Nadifa Mohamed: My Life at Oxford’s Last All-Women College

What's Changed—and What Hasn't—Since the Turn of the Millenium
July 9, 2018  By Nadifa Mohamed
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Nadifa Mohamed: What We Lost in the Grenfell Tower Fire

Of Greed, False Utopias, and the Transcendent Art of Khadija Saye
October 24, 2017  By Nadifa Mohamed
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