Nuruddin Farah
Biographic Data
| ID | 243973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nuruddin Farah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nuruddin |
| FAMILY NAME | Farah |
| SIGNATURE | FARAH N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
George Lamming: Reflections on Writing, Politics, and Caribbean Society
This interview was conducted in September 2014 by the noted African novelist and writer Nuruddin Farah and the Caribbean intellectual historian and scholar Anthony Bogues. George Lamming, a seminal Caribbean novelist, writer, and thinker, is the author of six novels and a remarkable volume of essays, along with several other works. He belongs to a generation of Caribbean writers and intellectuals who carved out a space for Caribbean literature an…
Salvaging Mogadishu from Ruin and Rubble
For decades, exiled author Nuruddin Farah has dreamt, written and carried Somalia, ‘the country of his imagination,’ throughout his nomadic existence. His eleven novels, one non-fictional study of the Somali diaspora, articles, essays, broadcasts and interviews bear testimony to this fact and are literary manifestations of the tragic turn of events in postcolonial Somalia. He was forced to flee Somalia, after having incurred the wrath of Mohamed …
Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora
The story of the international refugees created by the political tyranny of post-colonial Somalia. The author, an established Somali novelist who went into exile as a form of protest, has interviewed Somalis in Africa and Europe to provide this portrait of how people react, are wounded, how they survive, change and even thrive when they flee their homes and are turned into refugees. It shows how the refugees see themselves and how the host countr…
Acclamer les Marines ? Si l'on veut
Farah Nuruddin,Bardolph Jacqueline. Acclamer les Marines ? Si l’on veut. In: Politique africaine, n°50, 1993. La Corne de l'Afrique. pp. 122-124
A combining of gifts: An interview
(1989). A combining of gifts: An interview. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 171-187
Why I write
Close Sesame
Of Silence, of Noise
Nuruddin Farah is a writer from Somali. We came into correspondence after the publication of his first novel in London From a Crooked Rib. Since then he has continued to write in many styles – poems, a play, a new novel to be called A Naked Needle from the Arabic proverb “The needle that stitches the clothes of people remains naked itself.” He continues to experiment with “mind tricks” and wrote this short story for African Arts. “I hope you like…
A combining of gifts: An interview
(1989). A combining of gifts: An interview. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 171-187
Why I write
George Lamming: Reflections on Writing, Politics, and Caribbean Society
This interview was conducted in September 2014 by the noted African novelist and writer Nuruddin Farah and the Caribbean intellectual historian and scholar Anthony Bogues. George Lamming, a seminal Caribbean novelist, writer, and thinker, is the author of six novels and a remarkable volume of essays, along with several other works. He belongs to a generation of Caribbean writers and intellectuals who carved out a space for Caribbean literature an…
Of Silence, of Noise
Nuruddin Farah is a writer from Somali. We came into correspondence after the publication of his first novel in London From a Crooked Rib. Since then he has continued to write in many styles – poems, a play, a new novel to be called A Naked Needle from the Arabic proverb “The needle that stitches the clothes of people remains naked itself.” He continues to experiment with “mind tricks” and wrote this short story for African Arts. “I hope you like…
Of Silence, of Noise
Nuruddin Farah is a writer from Somali. We came into correspondence after the publication of his first novel in London From a Crooked Rib. Since then he has continued to write in many styles – poems, a play, a new novel to be called A Naked Needle from the Arabic proverb “The needle that stitches the clothes of people remains naked itself.” He continues to experiment with “mind tricks” and wrote this short story for African Arts. “I hope you like…
Close Sesame
Why I write
A combining of gifts: An interview
(1989). A combining of gifts: An interview. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 171-187
Acclamer les Marines ? Si l'on veut
Farah Nuruddin,Bardolph Jacqueline. Acclamer les Marines ? Si l’on veut. In: Politique africaine, n°50, 1993. La Corne de l'Afrique. pp. 122-124
Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora
The story of the international refugees created by the political tyranny of post-colonial Somalia. The author, an established Somali novelist who went into exile as a form of protest, has interviewed Somalis in Africa and Europe to provide this portrait of how people react, are wounded, how they survive, change and even thrive when they flee their homes and are turned into refugees. It shows how the refugees see themselves and how the host countr…
Salvaging Mogadishu from Ruin and Rubble
For decades, exiled author Nuruddin Farah has dreamt, written and carried Somalia, ‘the country of his imagination,’ throughout his nomadic existence. His eleven novels, one non-fictional study of the Somali diaspora, articles, essays, broadcasts and interviews bear testimony to this fact and are literary manifestations of the tragic turn of events in postcolonial Somalia. He was forced to flee Somalia, after having incurred the wrath of Mohamed …
George Lamming: Reflections on Writing, Politics, and Caribbean Society
This interview was conducted in September 2014 by the noted African novelist and writer Nuruddin Farah and the Caribbean intellectual historian and scholar Anthony Bogues. George Lamming, a seminal Caribbean novelist, writer, and thinker, is the author of six novels and a remarkable volume of essays, along with several other works. He belongs to a generation of Caribbean writers and intellectuals who carved out a space for Caribbean literature an…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works)