Nadifa Mohamed
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The Future of New Writing: Nadifa Mohamed

Septiembre 19, 2017

Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa in 1981 and moved to London with her family in 1986. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, was long-listed for the Orange Prize; was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award; and won the Betty Trask Prize. Her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, was published in 2013 and was long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; the novel won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Prix Albert Bernard. Mohamed was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013. She lives in London and is working on her third novel.

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British Writers, World Citizens / Granta’s List of Young Literary Stars
Granta 123 / Best of Young British Novelists 4 / Edited by John Freeman – review
Book reviews roundup / MaddAddam, The Orchard of Lost Souls and Unexploded
The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed / Review
An interview with Nadifa Mohamed: “I don’t feel bound by Somalia…but the stories that have really motivated me are from there”
The Future of New Writing / Nadifa Mohamed
Analysis / The 2021 Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our age
Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist
Booker Prize 2021 shortlist unveiled as race for £50,000 prize hots up
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed review / Injustice exposed
Novel of the week / The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed / ‘Modern-day Britain is intense’
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed review / A miscarriage of justice revisited
Nadifa Mohamed Q&A