Nadifa Mohamed

Nadifa Mohamed (2010)

Nadifa Mohamed (born 1981 in Hargeisa , Somalia ) is a Somali - British writer .

Life

When she was three years old, Nadifa Mohamed came to London with her family . What was intended as a temporary stay has become permanent due to the political circumstances in Somalia. The family settled in England, Mohamed studied politics and history in Oxford . Her first novel was published in 2009 and is based on biographical elements of her father. Black Mamba Boy received various awards such as: B. the Dylan Thomas Award , was on the longlist of the Orange Prize for Fiction and on the shortlist of the Guardian First Book Award .

The Orchard of Lost Souls , her second novel , was published in 2013 . With him Mohamed was one of the twenty "Best of Young British Novelists". In 2014 she represented Somalia at the Hay Festival in Wales . Nadifa Mohamed lives in London.

Mohamed draws the plot of her novels from the stories told by her parents. These sources and the empathy for their characters and their country create a well-worked text. With her second novel, Mohamed shows maturity and great abundance in her presentation. Her prose is characterized by strong lyrical elements.

Works

• Black Mamba Boy , Harper & Collins, 2010, ISBN 978-0-00-731577-2
  • Black Mamba Boy . Translation of Susann Urban. Munich: CH Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67596-6
• The Orchard of Lost Souls , Simon & Schuster, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4711-1530-1
  • The garden of lost souls . Translation of Susann Urban. Munich: CH Beck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66313-0 .

Awards

• 2010: Betty Trask Prize
• PEN / Open Book Award
• 2014: Somerset Maugham Award for The Orchard of Lost Souls
• 2019: Inclusion in the New Daughters of Africa anthology by Margaret Busby

Web links

• Literature by and about Nadifa Mohamed in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Nadifa Mohamed in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Nadifa Mohamed at perlentaucher.de
• Nadifa Mohamed at 3Sat at the Leipzig Book Fair

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nadifa Mohamed , at CH. Beck
2. ↑ Nadifa Mohamed , at Granta
3. ↑ The Magic Mountain ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Arifa Akbar: Book review: The Orchard of Lost Souls, By Nadifa Mohamed in: The Independent , August 16, 2013
5. ↑ The Society of Authors ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.