Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah was born on 24 November 1945 in Baidoa, to a father who was a trader and a mother who was a poet in the oral tradition. After schooling in Somalia and Ethiopia, he studied in India and then in England. In 1976, on his way home, he learned that one of his novels had offended the regime of Siad Barre and that he risked thirty years in prison: he then began a long exile, teaching in many countries. A novelist writing in English, he received the Neustadt International Prize in 1998 for his body of work.

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• NovelSweet and Sour MilkNuruddin Farah · 1979Literature