WRITER

Nadifa Mohamed

1981 - Today

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Nadifa Mohamed (Somali: Nadiifa Maxamed, Arabic: نظيفة محمد) (born 1981) is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine's list "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Her 2021 novel, The Fortune Men, was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, making her the first British Somali novelist to get this honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nadifa Mohamed has received more than 114,707 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nadifa Mohamed is the 7,290th most popular writer, the 57th most popular biography from Somalia and the 4th most popular Somali Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 18.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Party Girl
Fiction, general
2016
Milk and Peace
2013
Black Mamba Boy
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world.Jama is forced home to his native Somalia, the land of his nomadic ancestors. War is on the horizon and the fascist Italian forces who control parts of east Africa are preparing for battle. Yet Jama cannot rest until he discovers whether his father, who has been absent from his life since he was a baby, is alive somewhere.And so begins an epic journey which will take Jama north through Djibouti, war-torn Eritrea and Sudan, to Egypt. And from there, aboard a ship transporting Jewish refugees just released from German concentration camp, across the seas to Britain and freedom.This story of one boy's long walk to freedom is also the story of how the Second World War affected Africa and its people; a story of displacement and family.
2010
The Fortune Men
English literature, Murder, Fiction
2021
The Orchard Of Lost Souls
Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Somali Women
"The Orchard of Lost Souls takes place in Hargeisa in 1987, and charts the descent of Somalia into civil war through the entwined lives of three women"--
2011

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nadifa Mohamed ranks 7,290 out of 7,302. Before her are Frank Santopadre, Emily Temple-Wood, Meena Kandasamy, Téa Obreht, Abby Stein, and Sona Mohapatra. After her are Helen Oyeyemi, CGP Grey, David Dinsmore, Erin Hunter, Refaat Alareer, and Robyn Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Nadifa Mohamed ranks 1,467. Before her are Kavita Kaushik, Nikita Thukral, Toru Chishima, DJ Campbell, Rene Bourque, and Sam Ricketts. After her are Hrishitaa Bhatt, Wilson Deodato da Silva, Shinya Tokuni, Nicole Barnhart, Terry Pheto, and Aaron Schock.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Nadifa Mohamed ranks 57 out of 58. Before her are Abdi Nageeye (1989), Leyla Hussein (1980), Ayub Daud (1990), Mohammed Ahmed (1991), Abdisalam Ibrahim (1991), and Ilwad Elman (1990). After her are Nimco Ali (1983), Abdi Hakin Ulad (1991), Hassan Mead (1989), Omar Mohamed (1996), Shirley McCay (1988), and Olt Kondirolli (2003).

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Among WRITERS In Somalia

Among writers born in Somalia, Nadifa Mohamed ranks 4. Before her are Waris Dirie (1965), Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856), and Nuruddin Farah (1945).

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