Podcast appearances and mentions of sulaiman addonia

In this special live recording we dive into The Seers, the mesmerising new novel by Sulaiman Addonia. In conversation with Adam Biles, Addonia shares the story behind his bold, unfiltered novel—written as a single, unbroken paragraph—through the voice of Hannah, an Eritrean refugee navigating love, loss, sexuality, and identity on the streets of London. Three powerful readings by Liya Kebede, bringing Hannah's world vividly to lifeThe Seers is a novel that defies definition—sensual, poetic, and politically charged. Addonia's reflections on storytelling, migration, and the search for home will stay with you long after you listen.Buy The Seers: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/the-seers*Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan, and his early teens in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL.His first novel, The Consequences of Love (Chatto & Windus, 2008), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and translated into more than 20 languages. His second novel, Silence Is My Mother Tongue (Indigo Press, 2019; Graywolf Press, 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards. His essays appear in LitHub, Granta, Freeman's, The New York Times, De Standaard and Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist .Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile.Liya Kebede is a pioneering model, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She has worked with top fashion brands like Chanel, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, and Estée Lauder, promoting inclusivity in the industry. In 2007, she launched lemlem, a sustainable fashion brand supporting Ethiopian Artisans. Kebede is also a WHO Goodwill Ambassador and founded the lemlem Foundation to improve healthcare and economic opportunities for African women. She promotes literature through her latest endeavour "Liyabraire" and introduced the BB Bookbags collection.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An author who spent his early life living in a refugee camp in Sudan, his early teens in Saudi Arabia and then arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee speaking no English, has told FRANCE 24 how he turned his life around, and how his books reflect the situations he has found himself in. Sulaiman Addonia went on to earn degrees in development studies and economics. His latest book "The Seers" tells the story of a homeless Eritrean in London, and the sexual encounters she faces as she tries to negotiate a foreign land. He spoke to us in Perspective ahead of his appearance at the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company this Thursday. 

Das Leben im Flüchtlingslager und die Freiheit zu lieben, wen man will, sind die beiden großen Themen des Romans von Sulaiman Addonia. In "Schweigen ist meine Muttersprache" schreibt er feinfühlig über ein Lager im Sudan, wo Geflüchtete aus Eritrea untergekommen sind. Mit beschwingender Phantasie lässt er seine Figuren auch eine selbstbestimmte Sexualität entdecken. Rezension von Gaby Mayr. aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Rita Seuß und Bernhard Jendricke Orlanda Verlag, 258 Seiten, 22 Euro ISBN 978-3-94466-682-2

Join my guest and good friend, Mark, and I as we unpack Silence is My Mother Tongue, a historical fiction novel about an Eritrean-Ethiopian sister-brother duo navigating life in a refugee camp. Follow Mark on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrchari_jnr/ June & other reads book club pick: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48890225-detransition-baby Follow & other things on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andotherthingspoddy/ Follow & other things on Pinterest: https://pin.it/4gtqFyC

Join my guest (fellow podcaster and fellow Zimbabwean), Sharon, and me as we dive into the thoughtful, engaging, and emotional book that is The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah, a talented Zimbabwean author. Follow Sharon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miss_sharonjoy/ Check out Sharon's Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/candid-sharn/id1526880783 May & other reads book club pick: Silence is My Mother Tongue, Sulaiman Addonia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40938216-silence-is-my-mother-tongue Follow & other things on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andotherthingspoddy/ Follow & other things on Pinterest: https://pin.it/4gtqFyC

In this special anniversary show, it’s our 10th episode and 3 years since we started this podcast, we go back to our common passion for books, literature, and writing that has been nurturing our daily conversations and friendship, ultimately creating the base for this podcast. You are on a treat for moving stories that even we didn’t get to reveal to each other before about how our passion for the written word and more generally for a creative life started. Spoiler alert: memorable funny childhood moments that involve both our families. We made sure to include in the show authors and books that moved us mostly this year. And we have a pull of recommendations for you to be covered for the holiday season. And that’s not all. We also take you on a tour into our home libraries. Because they don’t only host our books but peculiar objects too. Only some made it to our show (there are many and it was hard to make a selection), the stories they carry and the connections they make to our memories. Finally, we share how our interest for a creative life, for reading and writing shaped our work and helped us becoming better communicators. We wish you a lovely end of the year and happy listening and reading! We will be back in January 2021 with special guests and conversations that inspire us to live more inclusively and create a more empowering world. We can never be loud enough about the issues we care about. Much love, Canan & Laura Show Notes and Links Books that moved us this year, Laura’s recommendations On Connection by Kae Tempest The Lover’s Inventory by Cyril Wong Things I Don't Want to Know - part of a trilogy on writing, gender politics and philosophy by Deborah Levy. Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth. The 4 stages of Psychological Safety by Timothy R. Clark. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy. On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. Books that moved us this year, Canan’s recommendations All about love by Bell Hooks Intimations by Zadie Smith Feminist Giant newsletter by Mona Eltahawy: https://www.feministgiant.com On Connection by Kae Tempest Sontag, her life and work by Benjamin Moser. La Difference Invisible by Mademoiselle Caroline and Julie Dachez. Silence is my Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia and his essay on the wound of multilingualism: https://lithub.com/the-wound-of-multilingualism-on-surrendering-the-languages-of-home/ Projects we mention City in Translations a project developed and run by Canan Marasligil that explores languages in urban spaces, focusing on individual cities and their specificity with regard to language diversity: http://www.cityintranslation.com Performative Translation Workshop: http://www.cananmarasligil.net/calendar/performative-translation-workshop Tandem is a cultural collaboration programme that strengthens civil society in Europe and neighbouring regions: https://www.tandemforculture.org MitOst is an organisation that connects active citizens in an open and diverse network in Europe and its neighbouring regions: https://www.mitost.org Music Credits Migrant Mother by Mild Maynyrd licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, Creative Commons. Get in touch with us Twitter: https://twitter.com/NLEpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nlepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NotLoudEnoughPodcast/ Email: notloudenoughpodcast@gmail.com

Founded by novelist Sulaiman Addonia, the Refugee Writing Academy gives people a safe place to express themselves through literature and find a way back to the interests of their former lives. Lisa Bradshaw reports

Sulaiman Addonia is a novelist who fled Eritrea as a refugee in childhood. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, and in his early teens he lived and studied in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL.The Consequences of Lovewas shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was translated into more than 20 languages. Sulaiman Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he has launched a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers. Silence is My Mother Tongue is his second novel.

Ce samedi, nous imaginons le monde post Covid-19 avec un grand auteur de science-fiction. Alain Damasio nous livrera ses réflexions. Il critique la gestion de la crise, s’inquiète pour nos libertés et espère pour demain la mise sur pied de ZAG, c’est-à-dire de zones autogouvernées. Il vient nous l’expliquer. Alain Damasio a publié l’an dernier « Les Furtifs » (La Volte). Comment protéger les plus démunis pendant et après cette pandémie ? Faut-il redouter une nouvelle crise alimentaire mondiale ? Eléments de réponse avec le nouveau rapporteur spécial de l’ONU sur l’extrême pauvreté et les droits humains. Olivier De Schutter sera à nos côtés. Août 1991. Des émeutes à caractère racial éclatent dans un quartier de Brooklyn. Colombe Schneck y revient dans son nouveau roman (« Nuits d’été à Brooklyn », Stock). Dans « En toutes lettres ! », l’écrivain Abdellah Taïa écrit à un jeune gay marocain. Et nous écouterons, en collaboration avec Passa Porta, l’Avis à la Population de l’écrivain Sulaiman Addonia lu par la comédienne Elsa Poisot et intitulé « La langue de notre époque ».

Nouveau rendez-vous : dès ce samedi, en collaboration avec Passa Porta (la maison internationale des littératures), chaque semaine nous vous lirons l’« Avis à la population » rédigé par un écrivain. Une série de textes qui racontent cette période si particulière que nous vivons. Des écrivains mettent des mots sur ces temps rythmés par la pandémie. Aujourd’hui, le texte « La langue de notre époque » de Sulaiman Addonia lu par la comédienne Elsa Poisot.

In April's Stories from the 55 podcast, Laura Angela Bagnetto speaks to Nnamdi Ehirin from Nigeria about a coming-of-age story called The Prince of Monkeys. The author also reads an extract from his work. The Prince of Monkeys unites politics and religion through a first-person narration. It's a story weaving in and out of the bonds between four old friends. It contains hints of autobiographical writing, embodied in close observations of Nnamdi Ehirin's own culture at the end of the 20th Century. Of his main character, he says, "The narrator is passive and deliberately so. It's not particularly autobiographical though. When I was growing up I was not the most vocal and I always open to ideas from other people in the group, open to trying out new things. It's not being passive, as being weak. He's open to others' ideas." Also, one of Laura Angela Bagnetto's guests in 2018, Sulaiman Addonia who wrote Silence of My Mother Tongue, shares his favourite novel in the Heinneman African Book series called Season of Migration to the North by Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih. He says, "It taught me that for a writer there shouldn't be any forbidden place ... Tayeb Salih taught me about the freedom of writing."

In "Silence is My Mother Tongue", the latest novel by Eritrean-Ethiopian writer Sulaiman Addonia, teen Saba and her brother Hagos arrive at a refugee camp in Sudan, where she is determined to continue her studies, while he is content to take care of her. The other Eritrean refugees bring their conservative views to the camp, especially when it comes to women. Addonia brings Saba to life through her fight to determine her own future, refusing the traditional restrictions imposed on her gender. "We need to take responsibility and accountability for the war we commit, especially against women," says Addonia, speaking of the struggle Saba has to assert herself, and her quest to finish her educaiton. "If there are crimes committed by women, or seem to be committed by women, they are extremely highlighted," he adds. Also included in this podcast: Helon Habila, Nigerian author of "Travelers", a novel coming out in June, speaks about his favorite book from the Heinemann African classics series.  

In our third episode, Publishing Director Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, speaks to Sulaiman Addonia about art, dance, censorship and his spellbinding new novel, Silence is My Mother Tongue.