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Farah, Nuruddin
About Nuruddin Farah
Biography (Encyplopædia Britannica)
Alden, Patricia, and Louis Tremaine. Nuruddin Farah, 1999
Chari, Hema. “Nuruddin Farah (1945- ).”Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Source Book, Parekh and Jagne (eds.), 1998
Bardolph, Jacqueline. “Nuruddin Farah.” Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, Second Series, Lindfors and Sander (eds.), 1993
Reviews
Mancusi, Nicholas. “The Human Side of Headlines.” TIME Magazine, vol. 192, no. 24, 2018
Hoffert, Barbara. “North of Dawn.” Library Journal, vol. 143, no. 12, 2018
Finn, Melanie. “Globalization and Grief.” New York Times Book Review, 6 Jan. 2018
Rizzuto, Nicole. “Somali Soundscapes: Signal and Noise in Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 58, no. 3, 2017
Sappenfield, Linda. “Hiding in Plain Sight.” Library Journal, vol. 140, no. 2, 2015
Brown, Matthew. “Knots.” Harvard Review, vol. 34, 2008
Hoffert, Barbara. “Fiction as Hope.” Library Journal, vol. 132, no. 3, 2007
Dixler, Elsa. “From a Crooked Rib.” New York Times Book Review, 26 Nov. 2006
Jones, Malcolm. “A Bleak Book You Can't Put Down.” Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2004
Korenowsky, Christopher. “Links.” Library Journal, vol. 129, no. 6, 2004
Kapteijns, Lidwien. “Yesterday, Tomorrow.” International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2000
Dasenbrock, Reed Way. “World Literature in Review: Somalia.” World Literature Today, vol. 68, no. 4, 1994
Interviews
Moolla, F. Fiona. “Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward: A Conversation with Nuruddin Farah.” Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 57, no. 1, 2020
Ajibade, Kunle. “Nuruddin Farah in Conversation: Good Fiction Is Never Far from the Truth.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 12, no. 3, 2018
Garuba, Harry. ““Dreaming on Behalf of the Community”: A Conversation with Nuruddin Farah.” Boundary 2, vol. 44, no. 2, 2017
“Nuruddin Farah: By the Book.” The New York Times, 17 Nov. 2014
Niemi, Minna. “Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from Abroad: An Interview with Nuruddin Farah.” Callaloo, vol. 35, no. 2, 2012
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “Nuruddin Farah.” BOMB, vol. 87, 2004
Alden, Patricia, and Louis Tremaine. “How Can We Talk of Democracy? An Interview with Nuruddin Farah.” Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, Wright (ed.), 2002
Gray, Stephen. “Interview with Nuruddin Farah.” English in Africa, vol. 27, no. 1, 2000
Criticism
“Theme Issue on Nuruddin Farah.” Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 57, no. 1, 2020
Shringarpure, Bhakti. “The Metaphysical Detective in Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk and Links.” English in Africa, vol. 46, no. 3, 2019
Shringarpure, Bhakti. “Nuruddin Farah and the Cold War in Somalia.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 50, no. 3, 2019
Fotheringham, Christopher. “History's Flagstones: Nuruddin Farah and Other Literary Responses to Italian Imperialism in East Africa.” Interventions, vol. 21, no. 1, 2019
Fotheringham, Christopher. “Publishing, Politics and Literary Prizes: Nuruddin Farah’s Reception in Italy.” African Studies, vol. 77, no. 4, 2018
Moolla, F. Fiona. “Postnational Paradoxes: Nuruddin Farah’s Recent Novels and Two Life Narratives in Counterpoint.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 49, no. 1, 2018
Moolla, F. Fiona. “Figuring the Dictator in the Horn of Africa: Nuruddin Farah’s Dictatorship Trilogy and Ahmed Omar Askar’s Short Stories.” Fictions of African Dictatorship: Cultural Representations of Postcolonial Power, Baker and Grayson (eds.), 2018
Thiruvarangan, Mahendran. “Imagining against the Nation State: Radical Singularity and Transnationalism in Nuruddin Farah's Maps.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 53, no. 6, 2017
Garuba, Harry. “Teacherly Texts: Imagining Futures in Nuruddin Farah's Past Imperfect Trilogy.” Boundary 2, vol. 44, no. 2, 2017
Pucherova, Dobrota. “Islam, Tradition and Modernity in the Work of Two Somali Writers: Nuruddin Farah and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.” English Studies in Africa, vol. 59, no. 2, 2016
Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, Gĩnchingiri. “Nuruddin Farah's Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship.” Unmasking the African Dictator: Essays on Postcolonial African Literature, Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ (ed.), 2014
Moolla, F. Fiona. Reading Nuruddin Farah: The Individual, the Novel and the Idea of Home, 2014
Works
Novels
North of Dawn (2018)
Hiding in Plain Sight (2015)
Crossbones (2011)
Knots (2006)
Links (2003)
Secrets (1998)
Gifts (1993)
Maps (1986)
Close Sesame (1983)
Sardines (1981)
Sweet and Sour Milk (1979)
A Naked Needle (1976)
From a Crooked Rib (1970)
Plays/Scripts
The Offering (1975)
A Dagger in Vacuum (1970)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“This Is What Hunger Looks Like — Again.” The New York Times, 12 Aug. 2017
“Ibsen, in Other Words.” Nordlit, vol. 34, 2015
“Nelson Mandela.” The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2013
“The Family House.” Transition, vol. 99, 2008
“Cooking Lessons – Bad Taste.” The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2004
With Dapo Adeniyi: “When is Our Millennium?” Glendora Review, vol. 3, no. 1, 2000
“Citizens of Sorrow.” Transition, vol. 81-82, 2000
Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora (1999)
“Celebrating Differences: The 1998 Neustadt Lecture.” World Literature Today, vol. 72, no. 4, 1998
“A Country in Exile.” World Literature Today, vol. 72, no. 4, 1998
“Travails in Mogadishu.” The London Review of Books, vol. 20, no. 17, 1998
“Presentation and Texts – A Country in Exile.” World Literature Today, vol. 72, no. 4, 1998
“The Women of Kismayo.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4885, 1996
“Highway to Hell.” Transition, vol. 70, 1996
“People of a Half-Way House.” The London Review of Books, vol. 18, no. 6, 1996
“Bastards of Empire: Writing and the Politics of Exile.” Transition, vol. 65, 1995
“Homing in on the Pigeon.” Index on Censorship, vol. 22, no. 5-6, 1993
“Why I Write.” Third World Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 4, 1988
“Good Writing is Like a Bomb.” Index on Censorship, vol. 10, no. 6, 1981
“Of Silence, of Noise.” African Arts, vol. 6, no. 1, 1972
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Novelist Nuruddin Farah: Facing A Blank Page Is 'Bravest Thing' A Writer Does. NPR, 25 Oct. 2014
Nuruddin Farah and Binyavanga Wainaina in Conversation. YouTube, 15 May 2013
Interview with Nuruddin Farah. YouTube, 14 Mar. 2013
Nuruddin Farah Reads from Links and Crossbones. YouTube, 13 Nov. 2012