Podcasts about Nuruddin Farah

Dhul Furan, Somaliland - Residents of a remote village are being savagley attacked by an unknown animal; the L.I.O.S. agent sent to investigate this incident has disappeared. Agent Kai is dispatched to determine what has happened in this rural village. ______________________________________________________ Agent Kai uses the legend Will Aslan in this episode. This name comes from the novel FROM A CROOKED RIB by Nuruddin Farah. (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/409198)

Novelist, essayist and master trilogist Nuruddin Farah is one of the most important contemporary authors working today. In a writing career that spans more than five decades, Farah has published thirteen novels, dozens of essays and plays, all of which critically engage various dimensions of Somali history, culture and politics. Farah wrote his first novel From a Crooked Rib in 1970 and has not looked back since and has since penned three trilogies: Variations on the Theme of African Dictatorship, the Blood in the Sun trilogy and then the Past Imperfect trilogy. He has famously declared that he writes about Somalia to “keep it alive” because, he says, “I live Somalia, I eat it, smell the death of it, the dust, daily.” Farah is the winner of the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Lettre Ulysses Award, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Premio Cavour and St. Malo Literature Festival Prize, among others. In this conversation, writer and editor Bhakti Shringarpure of the Radical Books collective speaks with Farah about his life, his prolific writing career, his penchant for stylistic experimentation and what it means to be a writer whose works become representative of a country and its people, both in Somalia and abroad.This conversation was hosted by Melahuset in Oslo (Norway) on September 28, 2023 to a live audience.

Prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet and academic, Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet about the events and cultures that have inspired him. Born in 1965 in Djibouti, he left his homeland for France in 1985 where he studied English at the University of Caen. He did a degree in English at the University of Dijon where he wrote a thesis on the work of the Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah. In 2008 he moved to America. Since 2012 he is professor of Francophone literature at George Washington University. Following on from the release of his first book – a short story collection called Le Pays Sans Ombre, Land Without Shadows – he has had 6 novels, 3 short story anthologies, 3 volumes of poetry and 2 essay collections published, and a great many articles. The recipient of numerous awards, he was recently named one of the “50 Writers of the Future” by LIRE magazine. Abdourahman Waberi discusses his childhood in a deprived neighbourhood of Djibouti, a pocket-sized but strategically important African nation near the Suez Canal. He remembers the pains of growing up with polio, how he kept strong in the face of merciless bullying at school, and his love of storytelling. He talks about life in France and North America, how writers Annie Ernaux and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o inspire him, and more. So tune in!   Produced by BookBlast  

Somali-Italian writer Ubah Cristina Ali Farah joins host Bhakti Shringarpure for an episode of BookRising as part of the Trailblazing African Feminists series. In this wide-ranging and intellectually rigorous conversation, Farah speaks about living in Somalia and Italy, and the ways in which Italy has only recently begun to reckon with their colonial past. She is the author of three novels: Madre piccola (Little Mother, 2007), Il comandante del fiume (The Commander of the River, 2014) and Le stazioni della luna (Phases of the Moon, 2021). Farah also writes plays, poetry, librettos for operas as well as academic work, and has been the recipient of prestigious residences and awards including the Lingua Madre and Vittorini prizes. Moving to Italy from Somalia at the age of 20, Farah was exposed to the second generation of migrants in Italy, many of whom retained ties with their previously colonized countries. This group included Pap Khouma and Igiaba Scebo, among others, and they have all sought to explore Italy's colonial histories in Libya, Somalia, Eritrea and other places. She speaks about the Sicilian city of Palermo where many African, Asian and Middle Eastern migrants converge making it a vibrant city as well as a refuge. Palermo also becomes the center of thinking through the concept of the Black Mediterranean; a term coined by Alessandra di Maio and which elongates the histories of the Mediterranean sea as a place of cultural and political confluences rather than simply a marker of migrant journeys. Farah says that she's optimistic about the many changes taking place in Italy due to the influence of the global movement for Black lives and due to the creative and political projects that engage discussions of race, colonialism, migration and language. She takes us through the writing journeys of her three novels which tend to get published every seven years. Farah explains that it was an epiphany to read Nuruddin Farah's novels and to dive into his unique vision of Somalia. In fact, her recent novel Le stazioni della luna revives and rewrites the character of Ebla who first appeared in Nuruddin Farah's debut novel From a Crooked Rib (1970). Other influences include Ousmane Sembene, Toni Morrison and even many older Italian writers like Dante. Finally, Farah reflects on storytelling as a radical act and explains, “I started collecting and transcribing all these oral histories. I was getting a taste of the words and it was very formative for me when I started writing. And then I discovered tje beauty of the archive which also has lot of audio material. So somehow, this kind of research and the stories that I have had the privilege to find have been the fuel for me.” Bhakti Shringarpure is the Creative Director of the Radical Books Collective.

Feedh Qaloocda waa buugii curad ee quraaga Nuuradiin faarax lana daabacay sanadkii 1970kii.

On this week's episode of the Young East African Girl podcast, we are joined by Los Angeles–based filmmaker and writer Khalid Moalim. Khalid is currently a script coordinator on the hit CBS show NCIS: New Orleans. We talk about the state of the world, his spiritual practice, and how he found his way into writing. We discuss his education at The Ohio State University and his entry point into writing through journalism as both a sports reporter and NPR intern, and his eventual shift into film and TV.  Join us as we demystify work in the film industry and learn how Khalid found his way onto the set of Boots Riley's award-winning film Sorry to Bother You, and what important lessons he learned from working with Neal Brennan co-creator of the Chapelle Show and much much more! Warsan Shire North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah

¡Hola a todos! Me temo que el viaje llega a su fin. Hemos vivido muchas cosas este verano, pero ya es hora de hacer las maletas y coger un avión de regreso a casa. Nos llevamos, eso sí, grandes experiencias. Hemos visitado 43 países, en los cinco continentes, aunque hemos hablado de muchos más libros. De hecho, diría que hemos pasado ampliamente los 80 que prometí :pOs dejo un pequeño resumen de todas las paradas de nuestro viaje y, también, de países con los que ampliar la ruta si es que aún os habéis quedado con ganas de seguir viajando.EUROPAEspaña: El infinito en un junco, de Irene Vallejo.Portugal: Ensayo sobre la ceguera, de José Saramago.Suecia: Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres (trilogía), de Stieg Larsson.Austria: Erebos, de Ursula Poznanski.Reino Unido: Matilda |Las brujas | Charlie y la Fábrica de chocolate | Relatos de lo inesperado, de Roald Dahl.Italia: Anna, de Niccolò Ammaniti.Alemania: Tú no eres como las otras madres, de Angelika Schrobsdorff.Islandia: Inocencia robada, de Arnaldur Indridason (serie de 14 novelas).Turquía: La bastarda de Estambul, de Elif Shafak.Albania: El Palacio de los Sueños, de Ismaíl Kadaré.En la lista de pendientes:Croacia: Café Europa, de Slavenka Drakulik.Rumanía: El verano que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes, de Tatiana Țîbuleac.Bielorrusia: La guerra no tiene nombre de mujer, de Svetlana Aleksiévich.Bélgica: La vida verdadera, de Adeline Dieudonné.Francia: Vestido de novia, de Pierre Lemaitre.ÁFRICARepública de Ghana: Volver a casa, de Yaa Gyasi.Egipto: Mujer en punto cero, de Nawal El Saadawi.Nigeria: Quédate conmigo, de Ayòbámi Adébáyò.Todo se desmorona, de Chinua Achebe.Americanah, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.Islas Mauricio: El último hermano, de Nathacha Appanah.Sudáfrica: Desgracia, de John Maxwell Coetzee.Botsuana: La primera agencia de mujeres detectives, de Alexander McCall Smith (serie de 19 libros).Marruecos: Canción dulce, de Leïla Slimani.Mozambique: Cada hombre es una raza, de Mia Couto.Zimbabue: Necesitamos nombres nuevos, de NoViolet Bulawayo.En la lista de pendientes:Somalia: Eslabones, de Nuruddin Farah.Senegal: La huelga de los mendigos, de Aminata Sow Fall.Congo: Tranvía 83 de Fiston Mwanza MujilaAngola: Buenos días, camaradas, de OndjakiLibia: Solo en el mundo, de Hisham Matar.Chad: Las raíces del cielo, de Romain Gary.Sierra Leona: El jardín de las mujeres, de Aminatta Forna.Kenia: El diablo en la cruz, de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.Etiopía: El lugar del aire, de Dinaw Mengestu.AMÉRICAColombia: El ruido de las cosas al caer, de Juan Gabriel Vásquez.Cien años de soledad, de Gabriel García Márquez.México: Casas Vacías, de Brenda Navarro.Argentina: Subsuelo, de Marcelo Luján.Nuestra parte de la noche, de Mariana Enríquez.Kentukis, de Samantha Schweblin.Brasil: Mi planta de naranja lima, de José Mauro de Vasconcelos.Ecuador: Mandíbula, de Mónica Ojeda.Chile: Los Altísimos, de Hugo Correa.Jamaica: Leopardo negro, lobo rojo de Marlon James.Perú: ¿Qué tengo de malo?, de María José Caro.Bolivia: Nuestro mundo muerto, de Liliana Colanzi.Cuba: Silencios, de Karla Suárez.En la lista de pendientes:Nicaragua: El país bajo mi piel, de Gioconda Belli.El Salvador: Roza, tumba, quema de Claudia Hernández.República Dominicana: Papi, de Rita Indiana.OCEANÍAAustralia: La bofetada, de Christos Tsiolkas.En la lista de pendientes:Las Luminarias, de Eleanor Catton.ASIAIrán: Leer Lolita en Teherán, de Azar Nafisi.Persépolis, de Marjane Satrapi.Georgia: La octava vida, de Nino Haratischwili.Corea del Sur: Kim Ji-Young nacida en 1982, de Cho Nam-joo.Japón: Battle Royale, de Koushun Takami.Nunca me abandones, de Kazuo Ishiguro.La fórmula preferida del profesor, de Yoko Ogawa.Afganistán: Mil soles espléndidos | Cometas en el cielo, de Khaled Hosseini.Rusia: Metro 2033 (trilogía), de Dmitry Glukhovsky.El Vivo | Una edad difícil, de Anna Starobinets.La India: El dios de las pequeñas cosas, de Arundhati Roy.China: El problema de los tres cuerpos (trilogía), de Liu Cixin.Irak: Frankenstein en Bagdad, de Ahmed Saadawi.Nepal: De diosa a mortal, de Rashmila Shakya.Indonesia: La belleza es una herida, de Eka Kurniawan.Corea del Norte: Los acuarios de Pyongyang, de Kang Chol-hwan.Israel: Los siete años de abundancia, de Etgar Keret.En la lista de pendientes:Arabia Saudí: Ciudades de sal, de Abderrahmán Munif.Camboya: Se lo llevaron todo, de Loung Ung.Mongolia: Cielo azul, de Galsan Tschinag.Pakistán: El fundamentalista reticente, de Mohsin Hamid.Malasia: El jardín de las brumas, de Tan Twan Eng.Para cualquier duda o comentario, las formas de contactar conmigo son a través de Twitter (@greenpeeptoes) o en el canal de Telegram del programa (t.me/habitacion101) También espero tus comentarios en https://emilcar.fm/habitacion101 donde podrás encontrar los enlaces de este episodio.

"Die Baggage": Monika Helfer und ihr Bestseller über die Großeltern / "Im Norden der Dämmerung": Nuruddin Farah schildert ein Paar, dessen Sohn Dschihadist wird / "Palast der Miserablen": Abbas Khider und sein Held zwischen Slum und Kerker. Torsten Flassig liest das Hörbuch dazu / "Von den Deutschen lernen": Thesen von Susan Neiman/ "Der Verrückte in den Dünen". Uwe Timm über Utopie und Literatur/ Buchmenschen in viraler Zeit und die Antwort von Minister Sibler/ Rätseltaxi

Ein älteres Paar holt die Stiefkinder des Sohnes und deren strenggläubige Mutter aus einem Flüchtlingslager in Kenia nach Norwegen. Werden sie die Kinder gut begleiten können, ihnen ein neues Leben in Norwegen ermöglichen, trotz wachsender Feindseligkeit gegenüber Migranten? Wie werden sie mit der wildfremden Schwiegertochter zurechtkommen, die mit Islamisten sympathisiert hat?

On this journey, I’m joined by Fousia from the Naptime is Sacred podcast as we explore * How a lack of stability can affect a person’s physical, mental and emotional state; * When is an insider an outsider? Or is it the other way round? * The effects of war on women. Book in focus: Links by Nuruddin Farah (Somalia). Follow Fousia on Instagram @naptimeissacred and find her on www.naptimeissacred.com. Get in touch with me on Instagram @booknomadpodcast or the website www.booknomadpodcast.com

Knut Hoem har lest somaliske Nuruddin Farahs familiehistorie fra Oslo

En av verdens største nålevende forfattere, Nuruddin Farah, overrasker med familiedramaet «North of Dawn», som utspiller seg i Oslo. Knut Hoem anmelder boka i Åpen bok. Programleder Cille Biermann.

An interview with Nuruddin Farah, novelist and winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah was in Pittsburgh for an editorial meeting of the journal boundary 2. Special thanks for Professor Paul Bové for helping arrange the interview.

Ever since 1991 Somalia has been marked by a brutal civil war, especially between al-Shabab militia and the government. But now, finally, the country has started to rise again, and the militia are losing ground. Now the country faces it’s perhaps greatest challenge ever: How to manage the difficult and critical transition from war to peace. We have invited the world-renowned author Nuruddin Farah to speak about his encounter with the “new Somalia” his thoughts about the future of the country. The meeting will be held in english. Farah_9swNuruddin Farah is a prominent Somali novelist. In 1963, three years after Somalia’s independence, Farah was forced to flee the Ogaden following serious border conflicts. From 1966 to 1970, he pursued a degree in philosophy, literature and sociology at Panjab University in Chandigarh, India. The event is supported by NORAD. Foto: Pål Høyum See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month, as part of the World Service’s Identity Season, World Book Club is in Cape Town, home of acclaimed Somali writer Nuruddin Farah, where we’ll be talking to him about his novel, Maps. This moving and dramatic book is the first of three novels which make up Nuruddin Farah’s Blood in the Sun trilogy. Maps traces the journey of a young orphaned boy, Askar, who is taken under the wing of a loving surrogate mother, Misra. Set in both Somalia and Ethiopia with an ever looming backdrop of conflict and political turmoil, Askar struggles to find and forge his identity in a land ravaged by war. Farah’s lucid exploration of struggle – both internal and external; personal and political – is as profound as it is compelling and draws on his own complex relationship with his native Somalia. (Picture credit: Jeffrey Wilson.)

On Saturday 9th May, the Nairobi Forum hosted an evening with renowned Somali author Nuruddin Farah at the offices of the Rift Valley Institute. Nuruddin spoke about Somali cultural losses in the civil war. Nuruddin is the winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Lettre Ulysses Award, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His body of work includes two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship (1980) and Blood in the Sun (1986). His most recent novel, Crossbones, was published in 2011.

Nuruddin Farah "Secrets;" (Arcade) An extraordinary conversation about the Somali author's language and family. The sounds of a mother's speech patterns initiate a web of recollection-magic realism from a deep, personal wellspring.