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Nadifa Mohamed

Born

Hargesia, Somalia

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction

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Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa (now in the Republic of Somaliland) in 1981 and moved as a child to England in 1986, staying permanently when war broke out in Somalia.

She lives in London and her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, based on her father's memories of his travels in the 1930s, was published in 2010. It was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. It won the 2010 Betty Trask Prize. ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 12,656 ratings · 1,814 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fortune Men 3.79 avg rating — 5,891 ratings — published 2021 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Mamba Boy 3.75 avg rating — 2,447 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Orchard of Lost Souls 3.85 avg rating — 1,928 ratings — published 2013 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Party Girl: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer in the City 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dugo putovanje kuci 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homens de fortuna by Nadifa Mohamed, Marina Inglês Vargas (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	[Black Mamba Boy]BLACK MAMBA BOY[Hardcover] ON 03 Aug,2010) by Nadifa Mohamed, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[ THE ORCHARD OF LOST SOULS By Mohamed, Nadifa ( Author ) Hardcover Mar-04-2014 by Nadifa Mohamed, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

tags: africa, black-women, historical-fiction, somalia, war, women-s-fiction

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“... the weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

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“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

tags: africa, black-women, historical-fiction, somalia, war, women-s-fiction

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March Poll: African Refugee

Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed

21 votes 48.8%

The Orchard of Lost Souls

by Nadifa Mohamed

15 votes 34.9%

Maps by Nuruddin Farah

7 votes 16.3%

43 total votes

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