Background
Farah, Nuruddin was born on November 24, 1945 in Baidoa, Somalia. Son of Hassan and Aleeli (Faduma) Farah.
( Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African D...)
Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the third and final book in the series, the characters are deeply entwined in the waking nightmare of a police state. An old man finds himself poised in mortal combat with an elusive and cunning enemy in an atmosphere where the distinction between public and private justice is always obscured. Close Sesame is a novel that offers "an eloquent indictment of the tyrannies committed both under Islamic law and in the name of Socialism" (The Observer).
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( Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Awar...)
Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like narrative of this novel thus moves on a primarily interior plane as "Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own" (Chinua Achebe).
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( Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literatu...)
Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature Farah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and then finds her efforts to instill her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive government and the traditions of conservative Islam. Sardines brilliantly combines a social commentary on life under a dictatorship with a compassionate exploration of African feminist issues.
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(Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of ...)
Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle."
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Farah, Nuruddin was born on November 24, 1945 in Baidoa, Somalia. Son of Hassan and Aleeli (Faduma) Farah.
Attended, University Chandigarh, India. Attended, Punjab University, India. Attended, University London.
Attended, University Essex. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Kent, Canterbury, England, 2000.
Clerk-typist Ministry of Education, Somalia, 1964-1966. Teacher high school, Mogadishu, Somalia, 1969-1971. Lecturer Afgoi College of Education, 1971-1974.
Associate professor University Ibadan, Jos, Nigeria.
( Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Awar...)
(Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of ...)
( Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literatu...)
( Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African D...)
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Married Mama Amina, 1992. Children: Koschin, Abyan, Kaahiye.