Faarax M. J. Cawl

Faarax Maxamed Jaamac Cawl, whose name is also transcribed Farah Mohamed Jama Awl, was born in 1937 in Laasqoray, in the Sanaag region, then part of the British protectorate of Somaliland. An engineer by training, he afterwards pursued a career in the Somali police. He was the first novelist to write Somali in the Latin alphabet adopted in 1972, published a second novel in 1978, and died in 1991 in Beledweyne, in the Hiiraan region.

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• NovelIgnorance is the Enemy of LoveAqoondarro waa u nacab jacaylFaarax M. J. Cawl · 1974Literature