Black Mamba Boy (2010) The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013) The Fortune Men (2021)
Movement
Realism, historical fiction
Awards
Betty Trask Award (2010) Somerset Maugham Award (2014) Prix Albert Bernard (2016) Wales Book of the Year (2022)
Nadifa MohamedFRSL (Somali: Nadiifa Maxamed, Arabic: نظيفة محمد) (born 1981) is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine's list "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.[2] Her 2021 novel, The Fortune Men, was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, making her the first British Somali novelist to get this honour.[3] She has also written short stories, essays, memoirs and articles in outlets including The Guardian, and contributed poetry to the anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019). Mohamed was also a lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London until 2021.[4][5] She will be Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University in Spring 2022.[6]
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NadifaMohamed FRSL (Somali: Nadiifa Maxamed, Arabic: نظيفة محمد) (born 1981) is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine's list "Best...
The Fortune Men is a 2021 novel by the Somali-British author NadifaMohamed, published on 27 May 2021, by the Viking Books imprint of Penguin General....
2010 novel by the Somali-British author NadifaMohamed. Black Mamba Boy (2010), the debut novel of NadifaMohamed, is a semi-autobiographical account of...
(1949–2012) – Somali poet, most notable for his famous poem Hagarlaawe. NadifaMohamed – Somali novelist. Winner of the 2010 Betty Trask Prize. Musa Haji Ismail...
Orchard of Lost Souls is a 2013 novel by the Somali-British author NadifaMohamed. It is set in Somalia on the eve of the civil war. Her second book,...
2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023. Flood, Alison (14 September 2021). "NadifaMohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian...
Retrieved September 7, 2021. Flood, Alison (September 14, 2021). "NadifaMohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian...
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Heart of Redness Thomas Mofolo (South Africa/Lesotho): Chaka (1925) NadifaMohamed (Somalia) Black Mamba Boy (2010), The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013),...
Ayobami Adebayo, Edwige-Renée Dro, Angela Barry, Goretti Kyomuhendo, NadifaMohamed, and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers about the influence of the anthology...
Letters. Retrieved 2020-04-07. Flood, Alison (September 14, 2021). "NadifaMohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian...
The Old Drift, was published in 2019. Reviewing it in The Guardian, NadifaMohamed wrote: "Namwali Serpell’s first novel is a rambunctious epic that traces...
Suldaan Mohammed Timacade (1920–1973), poet NadifaMohamed (1981–), novelist Gaariye (d. 2012), poet Mohamed Haji Mukhtar (1947–), historian and scholar...
shortlist revealed". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 July 2011. "Somali author NadifaMohamed up for first book prize". BBC News. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 23 July...
received positive reviews from critics. Reviewing it in The Guardian, NadifaMohamed wrote: "Namwali Serpell’s first novel is a rambunctious epic that traces...
February 2023. Ghadiali, Ashish (25 May 2021). "The Fortune Men by NadifaMohamed review–a miscarriage of justice revealed ". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077...
Somalilander-Norwegian footballer Hadrawi - songwriter and philosopher NadifaMohamed - Somali-British novelist Abdirashid Duale - CEO and founder of Dahabshiil...
Finalist Susan Fletcher Corrag Finalist Kei Miller A Light Song of Light Finalist NadifaMohamed Black Mamba Boy Finalist Daniel Swift Bomber County Finalist...
the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards), Mike Phillips, Booker Prize nominee NadifaMohamed and Diran Adebayo (first winner in 1995 of the Saga Prize, which was...
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