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Nuruddin Farah Quotes

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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The one thing that disturbs me, keeps me awake, gives me nightmares, is this falsehood we tell ourselves all the time: denying that we had anything to do with it

I continue having faith in the world I know as an exile, and I will continue writing about a country in which I cannot live, in a language that’s not my first tongue

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nuruddin Farah (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.