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Nadifa Mohamed is a Somali-British novelist and writer. She was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somalia, and moved to the United Kingdom in 1986. She studied at Oxford University and the University of East Anglia, and has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
Nadifa is the author of two novels, Black Mamba Boy (2010) and The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013). Black Mamba Boy was shortlisted for the 2010 Guardian First Book Award and the 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize, and won the 2010 Betty Trask Award. The Orchard of Lost Souls was shortlisted for the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2014 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Nadifa has also written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Independent. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Nadifa is currently working on her third novel, which is set in Somalia during the civil war.
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Her writing has also been published in such outlets as The Guardian and Literary Hub, as well as in the anthology New Daughters of Africa (2019), which includes poetry by Mohamed.
In June 2018 Mohamed was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.
In 2013, Mohamed released her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls. Set in Somalia on the eve of the civil war, it was published by Simon & Schuster. Reviewing it in The Independent, Arifa Akbar said: "If Mohamed's first novel was about fathers and sons ... this one is essentially about mothers and daughters." In 2014 The Orchard of Lost Souls won the Somerset Maugham Award and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
In December 2013, Mohamed was one of 36 writer and translator participants at the Doha International Book Fair's Literary Translation Summit in Qatar.
She was chosen as one of Granta magazine's "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in April 2014 was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.
Mohamed's first novel, Black Mamba Boy (2009), described in The Guardian as "a significant, affecting book of the dispossessed", is a semi-biographical account of her father's life in Yemen in the 1930s and '40s, during the colonial period. She has said that "the novel grew out of a desire to learn more about my roots, to elucidate Somali history for a wider audience and to tell a story that I found fascinating." A "fictionalized biography", it won critical and popular acclaim in countries as far away as Korea. The book won the 2010 Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for numerous awards, including the 2010 Guardian First Book Award, the 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize, and the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It was also long-listed for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Mohamed later attended the University of Oxford, where she studied history and politics. In 2008, she visited Hargeisa for the first time in over a decade.
Nadifa Mohamed FRSL (Somali: Nadiifa Maxamed, Arabic: نظيفة محمد ) (born 1981 in Hargeisa, Somalia) 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. 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 (ed. Margaret Busby, 2019).
Mohamed was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Her father was a sailor in the merchant navy and her mother was a local landlady. In 1986, she moved with her family to London for what was intended to be a temporary stay. However, the civil war broke out shortly afterwards in Somalia, so they remained in the UK.
