Nuruddin Farah Writer

Nuruddin Farah (Somali: Nuuradiin Faarax, Arabic: نور الدين فرح‎) (born November 24, 1945) is a prominent Somali novelist. He was awarded the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Personal facts

Nuruddin Farah
Alias (AKA)Faarax Nuuradiin
Birth dateNovember 24, 1945
Birth nameNuuradiin Faarax
Birth place
Somalia , Baidoa
Nationality
Somalia
Ethnicity
Somali people
Education
Panjab University Chandigarh
Spouse
Amina Mama

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Writer

award
Lettre Ulysses Award
Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Premio Cavour
St. Malo Literature Festival Prize

Topical connections

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Nuruddin Farah on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://afrikansarvi.fi/issue5/52-artikkeli/142-somalia-in-the-fiction-of-nuruddin-farah
  2. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/farah.htm
  3. http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/authors03/farah.html
  4. http://www.netnomad.com/nfarah.html
  5. http://www.netnomad.com/nuruddinfarah.html