Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men (Viking, Penguin Random House) was revealed to be the Wales Book of the Year Award 2022 winner on July 29, 2022. Wales Book of the Year is a national book award celebrating outstanding literary talent from Wales across many genres and in both English and Welsh annually since 2004. To […]
Nadifa Mohamed, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Raymond Antrobus, and Kayo Chingonyi, are on the shortlists for the Costa Book Awards announced on November 23, 2021 The Costa Book Awards are literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland given annually since 1971. They were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006 […]
Nadifa Mohamed is the featured guest of Goethe-Institut Namibia’s “Virtually Yours” on Saturday, October 9, 2021. She will be moderated by Zukiswa Wanner. Virtually Yoursis a series that brings you to the centre of contemporary African literature with discussions between leading African authors curated by Zukiswa Wanner and hosted by Goethe-Namibia. Since it kicked off […]
Nadifa Mohamed and Nathan Harris are on the longlist for the Booker Prize for fiction 2021 announced on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Also on the Booker Dozen list are South Africans Damon Galgut and Karen Jennings. The Booker Prize for Fiction, worth £50,000, is a literary prize awarded annually for the best original novel written […]
Nadifa Mohamed won a travelling scholarship at the UK’s Society of Authors’ Awards 2019 on June 17, 2019. The Society of Authors’ Awards is the UK’s biggest literary prize fund celebrating poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Held annually, it is a unique evening of celebration with each award chosen by authors for authors and judged by […]
The UK’s Royal Society of Literature has selected its 40 Fellows under the age of 40 with a strong contingent of writers with African roots. These are Bola Agbaje, Sabrina Mahfouz, Nadifa Mohamed, Chibundu Onuzo, Irenosen Okojie, Inua Ellams, and Warsan Shire. Last year the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Literature announced an initiative to […]
Nadifa Mohamed is leading the charge to fundraise for an ambulance service for Somalis. The horrific truck bomb attack in Mogadishu on October 14, 2017 was the worst in the East African region with over 327 dead at the moment and over 400 hundred. The attack shocked everyone in the region and even those who […]
Nadifa Mohamed will facilitate the Iceland Writers Retreat 2017; one of her wards will be Kenyan writer Peter Ngila. So you’ve heard of the great writers from Iceland like Gunnar Gunnarsson, Bobby Fischer, Sjón, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, and Snorri Sturluson right? Nothing? Well you might not have heard of them but they are kinda famous in […]
It was a special time on Thursday evening with five African books reimagined by respected performers at the Goethe Nairobi. The performers were Mumbi Kaigwa, Patricia Kihoro, Aleya Kassim, Raya Wambui, and Maimouna Jallow and the performed Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye’s Coming to Birth, Zukiswa Wanner’s Maid In SA, Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish, Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchid Of Lost […]
It’s all happening in Nairobi and Johannesburg as writers converge on their big towns for African literary deliciousness. Last night Niq Mhlongo unleashed his latest literary gem a short story collection called Affluenza to the world with a launch at Sakhumzi’s Restaurant on Vilakazi Street. We are hearing good things. If you know anyone who […]
World Storytelling Day is an annual celebration of the art of oral storytelling celebrated all over the world on or near March 20th. On this day, as many people as possible tell and listen to stories in as many languages and at as many places as possible, during the same day and night. In Nairobi, the events […]
The Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 is winding down to the sadness of delegates, both local and international, who are interacting, learning and have become friends with one another. There were several highlights from this day. One of these was the luncheon that the Mansour Hotel, which is where all international guests stayed, gave. At […]
Here are some images and videos from the fourth day of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone. Maimouna Jallow, Prof Niyi Osundare and Okey Ndibe Chuma Nwokolo and Jonny Steinberg live tweeting event Nimo Jirdeh moderates Ciku Kimeria Mary Harper moderates Maimouna Jallow Prof Mpalive Msiska, Nadifa Mohamed and […]
Here are some images and video from the third day of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone.
The action in the hottest literary festival happening right now continued in the biggest city in Somaliland on Monday. We had been enjoying the rich literary offering and world class friendliness of the people of Hargeisa and it didn’t look like it was changing any time in the near future. There were many panels that […]
