![]() ![]() Her new novel, The Fortune Men was published by Viking UK (May 27 th 2021) and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award 2021. Mohamed’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and many other publications. Nadifa Mohamed’s novels have been translated into twenty languages and in 2013 she was selected as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, a once in a decade honour. It was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and long listed for a Dylan Thomas Award. Her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls (S&S UK & FSG US), was set in Somalia during the Siyad Barre dictatorship, and won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Prix Albert Bernard. It won the Betty Trask Prize, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the PEN Open Book Award and long listed for the Orange Prize. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy (Harper Fiction UK & FSG US), was based on her father’s childhood experiences in East Africa and the Middle East. Nadifa Mohamed was born in Somalia and raised in the United Kingdom, she holds a degree from Oxford University in History and Politics. ![]()
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