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born 1945 Somalia
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today".
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My feeling is that any text written with informed African sensibility belongs to African literature.
If a character said something, I am not the one who said it!
What no one can reconstruct is the idea that was in our hearts, because there is mistrust among the people
In the condition of the colonized there is no choice in the working language
I'm usually very lucky in not having to bother about looking after the books; the books can look after themselves.
I kept asking myself this question: What is worth being killed for?
I learned that the creation of a text was a process that required time, thinking, ingenuity, and self-trust.
I am willing to say that I, too, am an accomplice in the ruin of Somalia.
To understand a society, you have to have many different writers writing about it, so that each author gives you . you know . covers a certain territory
one has to be very cognizant of the fact that you can’t get away with mistakes.
What happens when you rid yourself of the monster? You become a monster.
I don’t like very much any writer who ruins an opportunity by taking belated and transient political sides
Listening is a faculty lacking in many people, more specifically among men and among dictators
These young people are the only hope that we have, especially the ones who have the opportunity to take control of their lives
As a novelist, I usually think of myself as somebody who imagines that there are no secrets worth keeping, no taboo areas in human life
There is no value in having two million Somalis who are at the bottom of every society they join
The current situation seems to underscore that women have proven to be far hardier than men
To the young people of the new generation, I would advise them to also be the forerunners of future generations
Because you cannot torture the mind of a person, they torture the body
Our people do not comprehend writing because they do not understand the value of writing. This ignorance, however, is not their fault
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