NURUDDIN FARAH

Somalia

Biography

Nuruddin Farah was born 1945, is a Somali novelist. Throughout a literary career that now spans more than forty years, Farah has been an outspoken advocate for women’s rights in postcolonial Africa. He has also been a vocal critic of political corruption in Somalia and elsewhere on his native continent. Often controversial, the government of Somalia threatened him with imprisonment. During a long self-imposed exile, he taught in the United States, Germany, Italy, India, and a number of African countries. The recipient of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Farah now makes his home in Cape Town, South Africa. Knots is his tenth novel.

Bibliography

• Why Die So Soon? , 1965
• A Dagger in a Vacuum, 1965
• From a Crooked Rib, 1970
• A Naked Needle, 1976
• Sweet and Sour Milk, 1979
• Sardines, 1981
• Close Sesame, 1983
• Maps, 1986
• Gifts, 1993
• Territories, 2000
• Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora, 2000
• Links, 2004
• Knots, 2007