Nuruddin Farah
b. 1945 · Somalia · Literature
Chronicled dictatorship and diaspora across three novel trilogies.
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- Chinua Achebe
1930 – 2013 · Literature
The postcolonial national novel is the form Farah turns on Somalia.
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