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Farah Hussein Sharmarke was born in 1926 in Bardera, Somalia. He is a renowned poet and is considered one of the most influential Somali poets of the 20th century. He is known for his works such as “The Poet of the Desert” and “The Poet of the Sea”. Sharmarke was educated in Mogadishu and later studied at the University of Rome. He was a professor of literature at the Somali National University in Mogadishu and was also a member of the Somali Writers Union. Sharmarke has published several collections of poetry, including “The Poet of the Desert”, “The Poet of the Sea”, and “The Poet of the Wind”. He has also written several plays and short stories. Sharmarke is currently 97 years old and his net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He is married and has three children.

Popular As Faarax Xuseen Sharmaarke
Occupation poet, philosopher
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Born 1926
Birthday 1926
Birthplace Bardera, Somalia
Nationality Somalia

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1952

Farah Hussein Sharmarke composed his last poems in 1952 while in Kenya. Voice recorded poems are available for his last half dozen poems just before his death in the early 1950s.

1940

Farah Hussein Sharmarke (Af Soomaali: Faarax Xuseen Sharmaaarke, Arabic:فارح حسين شر ماركئ ) was a Somalian poet who composed poems during the 1940s and early 1950s whilst living in Isiolo, Kenya.

Farah Hussein became an established poet in the early 1940s. Farah Hussein composed most of his poems while in either Bardera, Garbahareyor in Isiolo in NFD region.

1926

Farah was born in 1926 in the city of Bardera in Gedoregion in south western Somalia. He studied poetry from other famous Gedo region poets and play writes including Guled Jufe and Mohamed Nur Shareco.