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Nadifa Mohamed

Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somalia. At the age of four she moved with her family to London. She is the author of Black Mamba Boy and The Orchard of Lost Souls. Her third novel, The Fortune Men, a finalist for the 2021 Booker Prize, is forthcoming in December from Alfred A. Knopf.


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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