Nuradiin Farah (Latest exclusive Info..)

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Nuradiin Farah

A Somali Writer

Widely recognized as not just "one of the finest contemporary African writers" but as "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction"(New York Review of Books). His fiction has been translated into more than a dozen languages and won numerous awards, including the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. "Widely regarded as the most prestigious international Prize for Literature and most literary awards after the Nobel" (New York Times).

Nuruddin Farah was born in 1945 in Baidoa, Somalia. The author of eight books, including the trilogy of novels known as Variations on the theme of an African Dictatorship. Exiled from Somalia after his novel Sweet and Sour Milk, Farah began what has become a lifelong literary pursuit “to keep my country alive by writing about it" His three novels Maps, Gifts, and Secrets. Comprise the "Blood in the Sun" trilogy, and all are available from Arcade Publishing.

 

April 20keeda 05:00-06:30 pm (Af Soomaali)

Goobta: Loft Literary Center

1001 Washington Ave South Minneapolis

(waxay u dhowdahay Ceder) Isla goobtaas saacadu markay tahay

7:00pm

Waxa uu bilaabayaa in uu dadka oo dhan u soo bandhigo

buugiisa oo u ku saxiixiyo (signature)

 

 

April 21keeda 10:00-11:15am

Goobta: South High 3131 19th Ave South Minneapolis (Auditorium)

 

 

April 21keeda 03:30-05:00pm

Goobta: 25 Humphrey Institute, West Bank Campus,

University of Minnesota

 

 

April 21keeda 03:30-05:00pm

Goobta: Ruminator Bookstore (ku dhegan Macalester College )

1648 Grand Avenue , St. Paul

 

Waxaa dadweynaha Soomaaliyeed lagu dhiirinayaa in ay ka soo qaybgalaan gaar ahaan tan koowaad ee Loft Literary Center ee afka Soomaaliga iyo Tan lagu qaban doono Humphery Institute.

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qoryolay tuug, thanks for the info on this author. i had enquired earlier about his full name and more info on his books in another post by a member named sophist that fist sparked my interest in him, for which of course he had failed to impart but he is forgiven lol

 

thanks!