Nadifa Mohamed

Nadifa Mohamed نادئفا محمد
Born	Nadiifa Maxamed 1981 (age 29–30) Hargeisa, Somalia
Nationality	British
Ethnicity	Somali
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Occupation	Novelist

Nadifa Mohamed (Somali: Nadiifa Maxamed, Arabic: نظيفة محمد‎) (b. 1981 in Hargeisa, Somalia) is an award-winning Somali-British novelist.

Personal life

Nadifa was born in Hargeisa, Somalia in 1981.^[1] In 1986, she moved with her family to London.^[1] There, Nadifa attended Oxford University, where she studied History and Politics.^[1]

She lives in London and is currently working on her second novel.^[1]

Literary career

Nadifa's first novel, Black Mamba Boy (2009), is a semi-autobiographical account of her father's life in Yemen in the 1930s and 40s, during the colonial period.^[2] It won the 2010 Betty Trask Award, and was short-listed for numerous awards, including the 2010 Guardian First Book Award,^[3] the 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize,^[4] and the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.^[5] The book was also long-listed for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction.^[6]

Awards

• Betty Trask Award (2010)

Works

• Black Mamba Boy (2009)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Nadifa Mohamed, HarperCollins Author Profile
2. ^ "Black Mamba Boy, By Nadifa Mohamed", reviewed by Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 15 January 2010
3. ^ "Guardian first book award shortlist revealed", The Guardian, 29 October 2010
4. ^ "Somali author Nadifa Mohamed up for first book prize", BBC, 28 October 2010
5. ^ "Shortlist announced for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2010". booktrust. http://www.booktrust.org.uk/Prizes-and-awards/John-Llewellyn-Rhys-Prize. Retrieved 31 October 2010. 
6. ^ Black Mamba Boy, Orange Prize for Fiction

Persondata
Name	Mohamed, Nadifa
Alternative names
Short description	Writer
Date of birth	1981
Place of birth	Hargeisa, Somalia
Date of death
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