Book your spots now to see Nadifa Mohamed talk about her award winning novel The Orchard of Lost Souls.
Mohamed will have two sessions on 2 March at the Intercontinental in Dubai Festival City. The first is a group session with Lalage Snow and Ashish Ray discussing 'how do we learn to live together in the shadow of bitter conflicts. The second session is a solo session discussing her award-winning book, The Orchards of Lost Souls, which tells the tale of the fates of three Somalian women after civil war has broken out in Hargeisa. More details on the sessions can be found below.
Sessions
Solo session: The Orchard of Lost Souls
- Time: 18:00 - 19:00
- Price: AED 75
Group session: Conflict resolution with Lalage Snow and Ashish Ray
- Time: 14:00 - 15:00
- Price: AED 75
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somalia in 1981 and studied History and Politics at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won the Betty Trask Prize, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award. In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and in 2014 as one of Africa 39’s Best of Young African Novelists. Her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, was published in 2013 and won a Somerset Maugham Prize and the Prix Albert Bernard, and was long-listed for The Dylan Thomas Prize and short-listed for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2016 she was one of the ‘finest and most creative novelists in fiction today’ asked to contribute to the anthology, Reader, I Married Him, which was published to celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth. She writes regularly for The Guardian, The New York Times, Lithub, and Freeman’s. Her work is translated into fourteen languages. She has just been announced as a 2018 recipient of an Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.