About
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, in 1981. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won the Betty Trask Prize; it was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award. Her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Prix Albert Bernard. In 2013, she was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, and in 2018 she was awarded an Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation and elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
