Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Somalia and moved to Britain in 1986. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, published in 2010, was longlisted for the Orange Prize; shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award; and won the Betty Trask Award. Her most recent novel is The Orchard of Lost Souls. She is one of Granta’s 2013 Best of Young British Novelists.
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Sasayama
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It was in one of those listless summers after graduation that I found myself in...
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Nadifa Mohamed: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 71
Ted Hodgkinson & Nadifa Mohamed
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Filsan
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‘Silence takes the place of all these words and her loneliness remains as dense and close as a shadow.’
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Fragments of a Nation
Nadifa Mohamed
‘I became English by osmosis; a new sense of humour, altered manners, an alternative history filtering through my old skin.’