Nuruddin Farah in conversation with Peter Hitchcock

Join us for a conversation with

Nuruddin Farah

prominent Somali novelist on the publication of Crossbones

In dialogue with Peter Hitchcock

February 1, 2012 | 6:30pm-8:30pm
Segal Theater
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, NYC
Free and open to the public.

The first African to win the coveted Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah has been described by Salman Rushdie as “one of the finest contemporary African novelists.” Educated in Somalia and India, Farah was hounded into exile by the Somali government in the Seventies for his writing. Farah has since lived in several African countries as well as holding teaching positions in Europe and the United States (he currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa). The author of over a dozen books, Farah recently completed his third trilogy of novels with the publication of Crossbones.

Committed to “keeping his country alive by writing about it” and short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Farah will discuss Crossbones, Somalia and the crisis of East Africa. There will also be a book signing.

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