Tag: Nuruddin Farah
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Nuruddin Farah’s “From A Crooked Rib” 50th anniversary celebration in Nairobi.
A fiftieth-anniversary celebration of Nuruddin Farah’s famed debut novel From A Crooked Rib was hosted at the new Cheche Bookshop and Café, Nairobi on Friday, February 14, 2020. Nuruddin Farah is one of the most respected names in world literature today. Famous for his many novels, he has also written plays both for stage and…
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Nuruddin Farah to celebrate “From A Crooked Rib” 50th anniversary in Nairobi.
Nuruddin Farah is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his famed debut novel From A Crooked Rib at an event at the Cheche Bookshop and Café, Nairobi on Friday, February 14, 2020. Nuruddin Farah, one of the most respected names in world writing today, is most famous for his novels. The Somali novelist has…
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Nuruddin Farah receives Lee Hochul Literary Prize for Peace 2019.
Nuruddin Farah received the Lee Hochul Literary Prize for Peace 2019 at a ceremony in Seoul, South Korea on August 28, 2019. Nuruddin Farah, one of the continent’s leading novelists, has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving his native Somalia in the 1970s, he…
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Nuruddin Farah’s “North of Dawn” to launch in Cape Town on April 24.
Nuruddin Farah’s North of Dawn is launching in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. Nuruddin Farah, one of the most respected names in world writing today, is most famous for his novels. The Somali novelist has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. He…
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Nuruddin Farah leads star studded guest list for Ake Festival 2018.
The Ake Festival 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria from October 25 – 27 will feature a battery of guests from across the African world of books and the arts led by festival headliner Nuruddin Farah. As earlier announced, the theme this year will be “fantastical futures.” The Ake Arts and Book Festival is organised by the Book…
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Nobel Prize 2016: We’re pining for a Nuruddin Farah win
October marks the announcement of the Nobel Prize for literature; this year we are pining for a Nuruddin Farah win. In 1901, five years after the death of Alfred Nobel, a new prize was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite…
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Nuruddin Farah to launch book at Kwani? Litfest 2016
The fifth edition of Kwani? Litfest, a gathering of writers, artists, and thinkers from across Africa, takes place every two years happens in Nairobi, Kenya from 1st- 6th December 2015. This year’s festival with the theme, “Beyond the Map of English: Writers in Conversation on Language” hosts readings, performances, and discussions that explore issues of…
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South African Literary Awards 2014 announced
The winners of one of South Africa’s more trusted awards, The South Africa Literary Awards were announced on Friday evening. The event which has been running since 2005 to celebrate literary excellence in all the languages of South Africa has unveiled the following winners; The awards are run by thr wRite associates and the Department…
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Highlights of Hargeysa International Book Fair 2014
My first experience of Hargeysa was in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchid of Lost Souls about three women and the way that they cope as their city falls apart. It was set in the late 1980s as Somalia fell apart. The Hargeysa of today is different in ways that one cannot imagine if you are obsessed…