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Nuruddin Farah

  • Skill Category: Writers
  • Present Address: Minneapolis, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Country: Somalia
  • Phone: 845-758-7210
  • Email: nfarah@bard.edu
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Biography

Nuruddin Farah (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as “one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today”. He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa. Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the world, his prose having earned him accolades including the Premio Cavour in Italy, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize in Germany, the Lettre Ulysses Award in Berlin, and in 1998, the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In the same year, the French edition of his novel Gifts won the St Malo Literature Festival’s prize. In addition, Farah is a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

1974–76: UNESCO fellowship, 1980: English-Speaking Union Literary Award (for Sweet and Sour Milk), 1990: Corman Artists fellowship, 1991: Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Stockholm, Sweden, 1993: Best Novel Award, Zimbabwe (for Gifts), 1994: Premio Cavour, Italy (for Italian translation of Close Sesame), 1998: Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 1998: St Malo Literary Festival award (for French edition of Gifts)

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