Igiaba Scego
Igiaba Scego (born March 20, 1974 in Rome ) is an Italian writer and journalist .
Life
Igiaba Scego's parents emigrated to Italy from Somalia after the Siad Barres coup , where her father held a ministerial office. She studied foreign languages in Rome at La Sapienza and received her doctorate in education from the University of Rome III .
In 2003 her first novel La nomade che amava Alfred Hitchcock was published . Scego also writes for newspapers and magazines such as La Repubblica , Il Manifesto , L'Unità and Internazionale , in German translation in the taz . She is the editor of several anthologies under the heading " Migration literature ".
Works (selection)
- La nomade che amava Alfred Hitchcock . Rome: Sinnos, 2003
- Rhoda . Rome: Sinnos, 2004
- Pecore nere . Anthology with Gabriela Kuruvilla, Ingy Mubiayi , Laila Wadia . Rome: Laterza, 2005
- Quando nasci è a roulette. Giovani figli di migranti si raccontano . Terre di Mezzo, 2007
- Oltre Babilonia . Rome: Donzelli, 2008
- L'albero dans Nessuna Pietà , Salani editore, 2009
- La mia casa è dove sono . Milan: Rizzoli, 2010
- with Rino Bianchi: Roma Negata: percorsi postcoloniali nella città . Rome: Ediesse, 2014
- Adua . Florence: Giunti, 2015
Web links
Commons : Igiaba Scego - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Igiaba Scego in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Igiaba Scego , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2010
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scego, Igiaba |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |