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Tubta Nabaada "Path to Peace"Path to Peace (Episode 395): Protection of Children in SomaliaThis week on #TubtaNabadda we look into the pressing issue of protecting children from all types of violations. Children in Somalia face numerous challenges, including neglect, recruitment by armed groups, limited educational opportunities, and physical and psychological harm.
During the first segment of the programme, we hear from Major Abdifatah Adan Hassan, Spokesperson of the Somali Police Force. He discusses the strategies implemented by Somali Police to safeguard children from recruitment into the police force, as well as the collaborative efforts between communities and law enforcement officers to protect Somali children from violations.
In the second segment of the programme...2024-05-3115 min
Arts & IdeasOctavia Butler's Kindred"A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles" is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to "tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know." Since her death in 2006, her writing has been widely taken up and praised for its foresight in suggesting developments such as big pharma and for its critique of American history. Shahidha Bari is joined by the author Irenosen Okojie and the scholar Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl, writer, editor, journalist – and long time friend of Octavia Butler.Irenosen Okojie's latest collection of...2024-01-1143 min
fiction/non/fictionNikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the Model Minority Myth: Prachi Gupta on the Rise of Indian American Presidential CandidatesAs Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy vie for the Republican presidential nomination, Indian American reporter and memoirist Prachi Gupta joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan put these politicians into historical perspective. She discusses how the myth of Indian American exceptionalism has been used to further white supremacy and suppress other minority groups, and also analyzes how Haley and Ramaswamy perpetuate the misguided notion of the U.S. as a meritocracy. Gupta discusses the role that class and caste has played in immigration from India; how gender affects diaspora politics; the appeal of assimilation and hierarchy; and the...2024-01-0448 min
Focus on AfricaLiberia's runoff election: What to expect?Liberians return to the polls on Tuesday in a runoff election between President George Weah and former vice-president Joseph Boakai. It follows a fiercely fought first round in which neither candidate was able to secure 50% of the votes for an outright victory. So, what can we expect from the runoff? Also British Somali author Nadifa Mohamed leads us into a world of cruelty and horror about human zoos. She tells the story of a stillborn baby, whose parents came from the Bambuti community from present day Democratic Republic of Congo to the UK.And does...2023-11-1035 min
Chudi's podcastLiberia's runoff election: What to expect?Liberians return to the polls on Tuesday in a runoff election between President George Weah and former vice-president Joseph Boakai. It follows a fiercely fought first round in which neither candidate was able to secure 50% of the votes for an outright victory. So, what can we expect from the runoff? Also British Somali author Nadifa Mohamed leads us into a world of cruelty and horror about human zoos. She tells the story of a stillborn baby, whose parents came from the Bambuti community from present day Democratic Republic of Congo to the UK.And does the blockbuster Nigerian film, "Over...2023-11-1035 min
Private PassionsBlack History MonthA special edition for Black History Month celebrating the lives and music of black women. Michael Berkeley revisits some of the many inspiring guests from the last few years who chose music written or performed by black women, and who have made their own important contributions to black history: artists Helen Cammock and Theaster Gates, writers Kit de Waal, Nadifa Mohamed and Isabel Wilkerson, jazz saxophonist YolanDa Brown, broadcaster Johny Pitts, and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, mother of seven brilliant young musicians including 2023 BBC Proms stars cellist Sheku and pianist Isata. Their choices range from music by Florence Price to performances...2023-10-2238 min
Bibliotecando#19: Jogamos stop literário! Veja no que deuStop, adedanha, adedonha... Não importa o nome. É só o jogo começar que o caos vem junto. É gelo sendo chamado de cor, naja sendo colocada de animal, navio, em objeto e por aí vai. Mas você já jogou Stop Literário? Resolvemos testar esse jogo com os microfones bem ligados (mas os cérebros nem tanto) e deu neste episódio do Bibliotecando.
Livros citados no episódio:
“É Assim que Acaba”, Colleen Hoover: https://amzn.to/3CqMtdD
“Mentirosos”, E. Lockhart: https://amzn.to/3PbRf66
“Os Sete Maridos de Evelyn Hugo”, Taylor Jenkins Reid: https://amzn.to/467Q9...2023-06-1526 min
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Language InstructionLetters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa AnapparaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Writer of Colour Author: Deepa Anappara Narrator: Taymour Soomro, Deepa Anappara, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour. What if we reconsidered our assumptions about how fiction should be written? And can we then apply our...2023-03-2305 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLetters to a Writer of Color by Madeleine Thien, Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu GuoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Writer of Color Author: Madeleine Thien, Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo Narrator: Taymour Soomro, Deepa Anappara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work “Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call al...2023-03-0710 min
BookclubNadifa Mohamed: The Fortune MenNadifa Mohamed joins James Naughtie and readers to talk about her award-winning novel The Fortune Men. Set in Cardiff in the 1950s, the novel is based on the real-life trial of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali seaman accused of murder. It's a powerful, moving read and a dazzling portrait of a proud, bewildered young man and his life in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. Upcoming recordings: 15 March at 1830 at BBC Broadcasting House, London: Tan Twan Eng will be answering questions about his novel The Garden of Evening Mists. 19 April at 1300 at BBC Broadcasting House, London: Sarah...2023-03-0527 min
BookRisingHow To Write About War 1: Reporting on UkraineAre you shocked and distressed about the way in which war and displacement is being represented, reported and talked about right now with the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Writers, journalists, activists, scholars, Bhakti Shringarpure, Nadifa Mohamed, Suchitra Vijayan and Billy Kahora think through this difficult topic. Recorded on March 25, 2022, they intervene in the moral and political crisis around the writing, reporting, representing and filming of war and all the extraordinary violence, plunder and displacement it perpetuates. Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and educator who co-founded and edited Warscapes magazine for ten years before it transitioned into the...2023-02-251h 03BookclubCal Flyn: Islands of AbandonmentJames Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Cal Flyn about her acclaimed book, Islands of Abandonment, an exploration of places which have been reclaimed by nature. She talks about her travels to Cyprus, the Orkney Islands, First World War battlefields in France, and beyond, chronicling the fightback that plants have staged once humans have left. She reveals why finding hope in even the most desolate places is important to her, and why it's ok to leave lawns unmown.
Our next recordings are both in-person events at BBC Broadcasting House in London. 16 February 2023 at 18.30 Nadifa Mohamed...2023-02-0527 min
Drammensbibliotekenes podkast#135 - Litteratur til lunsj - live under Drammen podcastfestivalLitteratur til lunsj innspilt på Drammensbiblioteket 19. januar 2023 med Britt Kroken Kjenes og Runar Nylende Huse.
Britt snakket om
«Mannen fra Tiger Bay», av Nadifa Mohamed
«Svaner blir ikke skilt», av Audur Ava Olafsdottir
«Kvit mann», av Brynjulf Jung Tjønn
Runar snakket om: «Hjertet i to - Karpe i seks måneder", av Yohan Shanmugaratnam
«Gul bok», av Zeshan Shakar
«Abida Raja», Frihetens øyeblikk", av Håkon F. Høydal2023-02-0342 min
Books & Ideas AudioWriting History: Nadifa Mohamed and Nathan HarrisTwo of the biggest names in literary historical fiction discuss race, humanity, and writing sweeping stories based on true events. Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men, based on the real story of a young Somali sailor accused of a crime he did not commit, was a finalist for the Booker Prize. Nathan Harris joined us with The Sweetness of Water, depicting the bond between two brothers, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in the waning days of the Civil War. It was an Oprah’s Book Club pick, one of President Obama’s favourite books of the year, and won the Willi...2023-02-011h 13BookclubRoss King: Brunelleschi's DomeHistorian Ross King answers listener questions about his book Brunelleschi's Dome. An incredible story of one man's determination to build an apparently impossible structure, it's a tale of ingenuity, artistic rivalries, and single-minded obsession. Although building had started on Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore in the late thirteenth century, it wasn't until 1418 that local goldsmith Filippo Brunelleschi came up with an audacious way of constructing the magnificent dome, which still dominates the Florence skyline today. But as Brunelleschi's Dome reveals, the architect faced huge obstacles and opposition along the way. Our next Bookclub recordings: 18/01/23: Cal...2023-01-0127 min
Litteraturhusets podkastMy African Reading List: Nadifa MohamedNadifa Mohamed er forfatter av tre romaner, og de to tidligste, Svart mamba og De tapte sjelers land, er oversatt til norsk. I 2017 deltok Mohamed under Litteraturhusets somaliske dager, og under pandemien intervjuet hun Arundhati Roy og Édouard Louis i Litteraturhuset og Linn Ullmanns podkast How to Proceed. I 2013 sto hun på magasinet Grantas liste over beste unge britiske forfattere. Mohameds siste roman, The Fortune Men, ble kortlistet til den prestisjetunge Booker-prisen i 2021. Hun underviser i skrivekunst ved Royal Holloway University i London. Dette er Nadifas leseliste.Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma, oversatt av...2022-12-2925 min
LitHouse podcastMy African Reading List: Nadifa MohamedNadifa Mohamed is the writer of three novels, with the two first, Black Mamba and The Orchard of Lost Souls available in Norwegian translation so far. In 2017, Mohamed participated in The House of Literature’s festival on Somali literature, A nation of poets. During the pandemic, she interviewed Arundhati Roy and Édouard Louis for the House of Literature and Linn Ullmann’s podcast How to Proceed. In 2013, she appeared on Granta’s list of best young British writers. Mohamed’s latest novel, The Fortune Men, was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize in 2021. Mohamed teaches creative writing at the Royal Hol...2022-12-2925 minArts & IdeasClaude McKay and the Harlem RenaissanceFrom a farming family in Jamaica to travelling in Europe and Northern Africa, the writer Claude McKay became a key figure in the artistic movement of the 1920s dubbed The Harlem Renaissance. Publishing under a pseudonym, his poems including To the White Friends and If We Must Die explored racial prejudice. Johnny Pitts has written an essay about working class community, disability and queer culture explored in Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille, which was published for the first time in 2020. Pearl Cleage's play Blues for an Alabama Sky is set in 1930s New York. The African-American playwright is the...2022-09-2944 min
Drammensbibliotekenes podkast#129 - Litteratur til lunsj: bokprat om Jon Kalman Stefansson, Rune Christiansen, Lydia Sandgren m.flBøkene vi snakket om i podcasten:
Guzel Jakhina, «Zulejkha åpner øynene»
Cappelen Damm, 2022
David Attenborough, «Et liv på vår planet»
Cappelen Damm 2021
«De tapte sjelers land» Nadifa Mohamed
Vigmostad Bjørke 2014
Kristin Auestad Danielsen
«Du er bonde»
Samlaget 2022
Jon Kalman Stefansson, «Ditt fravær av mørke»
Press 2021
Jon Kalman Stefansson, «Hjertet er en egensindig traktor»
Press 2021
2022-09-2340 min
Dan Snow's History HitThe Man Wrongfully Hanged at Cardiff PrisonIn September 1952 Mahmood Hussein Mattan became the last to be executed at Cardiff Prison, but Mahmood had in fact been framed by the police and 70 years later South Wales Police formally apologised to his family for his wrongful conviction.Mahmood originally hailed from Somalia and had been a merchant seaman who had ended up settling in Cardiff and marrying a Welsh woman called Laura Williams. They lived in the Tiger Bay district of Cardiff and had three children before their separation in 1950. Mahmood faced racism and discrimination and had several encounters with the police. His vocal...2022-09-2126 min
Abstração Coletiva PodcastMaternidade e literatura, com Pilar Bu / Abstração Coletiva #06Nesse episódio, Luana Werb e Pilar Bu recomendam livros que abordam o tema da maternidade.
Livros citados no episódio:
A mulher de pés descalços, de Scholastique Mukasonga
O pomar das almas perdidas, de Nadifa Mohamed
Quarenta dias, de Maria Valéria Rezende
Água de barrela, de Eliana Alves Cruz
Ponciá Vicêncio, de Conceição Evaristo
Damas da lua, de Jokha Alharthi
Gosma rosa, de Fernanda Trías
Minhas redes:
e-mail: contato@abstracaocoletiva.com.br
instagram: @abstracao.coletiva
youtube: /abstracaocoletiva
Música:
Happy Feet, Soundroll
2022-09-161h 48
LIVE! From City LightsNadifa Mohamed in Conversation with Tommy OrangeNadifa Mohamed in conversation with Tommy Orange, celebrating the release of her new novel "The Fortune Men," published by Alfred Knopf. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis.
You can purchase copies of "The Fortune Men" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/fortune-men/
Nadifa Mohamed was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. At the age of four she moved with her family to London. She is the author of "Black Mamba Boy" and "The Orchard of Lost Souls." She has received both The Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and in 2013, she...2022-08-121h 00
The Penguin PodcastNadifa Mohamed with Derek OwusuThis week on the penguin podcast, Derek Owusu is joined by Booker and Costa shortlisted novelist, Nadifa Mohamed. Nadifa joins us to discuss her latest novel, The Fortune Men, a fictional account of the life of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, who was wrongly convicted and executed in 1952. They also discuss Nadifa's love for travelling, her interest in cars and which model she gifted herself, how fact informs her fiction and the importance of including flaws in characters.Don't forget to follow the show so you never miss an episode, and...2022-08-1030 minfiction/non/fictionThe Fall of Boris Johnson: Margot Livesey on British Politics, the Brexit Blunder, and the Prime Minister’s LiesNovelist Margot Livesey joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell from London to discuss the downfall of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the legacy of his decision to “do Brexit.” Livesey, who grew up in Scotland, explains Johnson’s career of fabrications, talks about how Brexit looks now, and shares her experience of the recent heat wave in the U.K. Finally, she and the hosts analyze characters who resemble Johnson in literature–including the antagonist in Livesey’s novel The Missing World.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher...2022-08-0446 min
Emociones entre líneas: un podcast de libros22.08.01. Escenarios entre líneas: África del EsteEn el pod del día de hoy, Escenarios entre líneas: África del Este, transitaremos por narrativas con voz propia de escritores y escritoras africanas originarias de Etiopía, Eritrea, Yibuti, Somalia, Uganda, Ruanda, Burundi, Kenia, Tanzania, Sudán y Sudán del Sur. En este episodio repasamos las siguientes lecturas:
Isegawa, Moses. Abyssinian Chronicles. London: Picador, 2000. ISBN: 878-1-4472-7584-8.
Faye, Gaël. Small country. London: Vintage, 978-1-784-70593-0.
Mohamed, Nadifa. Black mamba boy. London: Harper Collins, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-00-731577-2.
Farah, Nuruddin. Hiding in the plain sight. London: Oneworld, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-78074...2022-06-1137 min
emociones entre líneas: un podcast de libros22.08.01. Escenarios entre líneas: África del EsteEn el pod del día de hoy, Escenarios entre líneas: África del Este, transitaremos por narrativas con voz propia de escritores y escritoras africanas originarias de Etiopía, Eritrea, Yibuti, Somalia, Uganda, Ruanda, Burundi, Kenia, Tanzania, Sudán y Sudán del Sur. En este episodio repasamos las siguientes lecturas:
Isegawa, Moses. Abyssinian Chronicles. London: Picador, 2000. ISBN: 878-1-4472-7584-8.
Faye, Gaël. Small country. London: Vintage, 978-1-784-70593-0.
Mohamed, Nadifa. Black mamba boy. London: Harper Collins, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-00-731577-2.
Farah, Nuruddin. Hiding in the plain sight. London: Oneworld, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-78074...2022-06-1137 min
Podcast do PublishNews218 - Wendel Isler - O Profissional de Marketing e Vendas do AnoQuem conhece o mercado editorial já sabia que a disputa pelo Prêmio PublishNews de Profissional de Marketing e Vendas do Ano seria uma disputa acirrada, Juntos, os seis dinâmicos finalistas já poderiam contar uma boa parte da história de dificuldades e superações que marcou o ano de 2021, ainda sob os riscos que a pandemia trouxe, Eles foram capazes de pensar fora da caixa, de se reinventar e transformar um ano atípico e difícil numa grande demonstração de seus melhores desempenhos. Jardel Carvalho (Grupo GEN), Juliana Ferreira (Grupo Ediouro), Lilian Cardoso (LC – Agência de Comunic...2022-05-3057 min
AfroReads PodcastSeason 2 Episode 11 - The Fortune MenThe Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed takes you through the emotions of a Somali immigrant named Mahmood, who finds himself in Cardiff, Wales. He has three children with a Welsh woman, but lives on his own with the belief that he has made it to the land of justice for all. A murder disrupts the city, and Mahmood finally understands how the justice system might not provide justice for all. 2022-04-151h 06
Front RowOcean Vuong, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore reviewed, Southampton UK City of Culture bid, Nadifa MohamedOcean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet whose recent works include a best-selling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and a multi-prize-winning volume of verse, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. He talks about his latest collection of poems, Time Is A Mother, exploring themes of childhood, addiction, sexuality and the death of his mother. The third film in the Fantastic Beasts series, The Secrets of Dumbledore, is reviewed by Anna Smith, film critic and host of Girls on Film podcast.Front Row explores the four places competing to be UK City of Culture 2025, starting with So...2022-04-0642 min
Behind the Mic with AudioFile MagazineTHE FORTUNE MEN by Nadifa Mohamed, read by Hugh QuarshieActor Hugh Quarshie is a gifted mimic, and he reads with a measured pace that provides this sad historical novel with a sense of inevitably. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile contributor Alan Minskoff discuss Quarshie’s skill narrating Nadifa Mohamed’s work, which is based on real events in Cardiff, Wales, in 1952. Quarshie’s Somali-inflected English and his reading of Arabic offer the protagonist, Mahmood Mattan, verisimilitude, and he does Welsh, Jamaican, and English accents well, placing the listener inside the characters’ minds. The performance gives dignity to the falsely accused protagonist. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFil...2022-03-1705 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastDr. Nicole FleetwoodEp.98 features Dr. Nicole Fleetwood. She is an art historian and curator exploring how the art of incarcerated people is essential to our understandings of contemporary art, the carceral state, and the humanity it contains. Fleetwood’s earlier work focused on representations of Blackness in art, performance, and popular culture, particularly how assumptions within American culture about Blackness are disrupted or reinforced by Black artists and public figures.
In part motivated by her experiences visiting imprisoned family members, Fleetwood turned her keen curatorial vision to artistic production in and around the United States prison system. In the book Marking Time: Ar...2022-03-1624 min
Fuck off. I'm reading.Episode 10Amy and Emily spar over background noise and almost forget they are supposed to be talking about books amidst other concerns like who rolls Snoop Dogg's blunts, Justin Timberlake, the Olympics, postal fraud, and sulfite sensitivity. They finally manage to get on topic about "To Paradise" by Hanya Yanigahara, "The Fortune Men" by Nadifa Mohamed, "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell and more!2022-03-1033 min
The Shakespeare and Company InterviewNadifa Mohamed on The Fortune MenThis week’s guest is Booker-shortlisted Nadifa Mohamed discussing The Fortune Men a gripping fictional portrayal of a real miscarriage of justice in 1950s Cardiff.Buy The Fortune Men here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780241466940/the-fortune-men-shortlisted-for-the-costa-novel-of-the-year-awardBrowse our online store here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/15/online-store/16/bookstore*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS FEATURESIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes including: An initiation into the world of rare book collecting; The chance to expand your reading horizons as our passionate booksellers recommend their favourite titles; Handpicked classic interviews from our archive; And an...2022-01-2752 minThe Shakespeare and Company InterviewNadifa Mohamed on The Fortune MenThis week’s guest is Booker-shortlisted Nadifa Mohamed discussing The Fortune Men a gripping fictional portrayal of a real miscarriage of justice in 1950s Cardiff.Buy The Fortune Men here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780241466940/the-fortune-men-shortlisted-for-the-costa-novel-of-the-year-awardBrowse our online store here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/15/online-store/16/bookstore*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS FEATURESIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes including: An initiation into the world of rare book collecting; The chance to expand your reading horizons as our passionate booksellers recommend their favourite titles; Handpicked classic interviews from our archive; And an...2022-01-2752 min
Not Your DemographicA dash of nihilism with your coffee?This week on Not Your Demographic, Erin is carrying around a kettlebell in her tummy, and Stella is wearing her high school lacrosse uniform in public! They break down what they've been reading, rant about this dumb countries attack on women's rights, rave about the return of Jon Moxley, and answer the age-old question "zombie apocalypse or robot apocalypse?" Timestamps: Whatcha reading? (0:11:50)Rants & Raves (0:52:30)Big stack o' questions (1:33:30) Books discussed: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner/ This is Just My Face Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe/ Townie by...2022-01-261h 44
Joy Keys chats with Author Nadifa MohamedNADIFA MOHAMED was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. At the age of four she moved with her family to London. She is the author of Black Mamba Boy and The Orchard of Lost Souls. She has received both The Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and in 2013, she was named as one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. Her work appears regularly in The Guardian and the BBC. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in London.
Her latest novel is called The Fortune Men. Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952...2021-12-1829 minfiction/non/fictionImmigration in Europe: Nadifa Mohamed on Belarus, Brexit, and the EU’s Accelerating Racism Towards Migrants of ColorAcclaimed novelist Nadifa Mohamed joins hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the crisis around migrants passing from Belarus into Poland and thus into the E.U. Mohamed analyzes the crisis, engineered by Russian-backed strongman Alexander Lukashenko, in the context of Europe’s historical antipathy toward immigration, and reads from her Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, The Fortune Men, the fictionalized account of a Somali immigrant named Mahmood Mattan, set in Cardiff, Wales during the 1950s. She discusses how attitudes toward immigration shaped Brexit and the U.K.’s draconian new Nationality and Borders Bill, which will potentially affect the...2021-12-1643 min
Free Library PodcastNadifa Mohamed | The Fortune MenIn conversation with Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman, The Angel of History, The Hakawati, and most recently, The Wrong End of the Telescope.
Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed is the writer of the renowned novels Black Mamba Boy and The Orchard of Lost Souls. A regular contributor to The Guardian and the BBC, she is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is a lecturer in creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Mohamed is the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was named one of Granta's best young British novelists of...2021-12-1656 min
Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalThe Fortune Men: A novel by Nadifa MohamedPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/540083to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Fortune Men: A novel
Author: Nadifa Mohamed
Narrator: Hugh Quarshie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Release date: December 14, 2021
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress). In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killin...2021-12-1410h 31
New Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseThe Fortune Men: A novel by Nadifa MohamedPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/540083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fortune Men: A novel Author: Nadifa Mohamed Narrator: Hugh Quarshie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress). In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal...2021-12-1410 min
All the Books!Great December Book Releases: December 7, 2021This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The Fortune Men, The Love Con, They Can’t Take Your Name, and more great books being released in December.Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. And follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books dis...2021-12-0740 min
The Grand Thunk36: END OF SEASON: Giggles, Edging and NonsenseWe have such a fun, bumper episode filled with so much nonsense and laughter. Rhiannon is buzzing about the Harry Potter Reunion, has been adoring Stanley Tucci’s open and touching interview with Elizabeth Day and has dived into the real-life story of Mahmood Mattan and the Cardiff justice system. Alex has been finding out more about the tragedy at Travis Scott’s concert and on a lighter note, delighting in a horni fantasy series called The Court of Thorns and Roses.
If you miss us on our break, sign up to our Patreon for fresh, new cont...2021-11-221h 04
O que ler agora?Episódio 24: Nadifa Mohamed + Tatiana TibuleacDuas obras incríveis chegam ao Brasil pelas mãos de editoras independentes. As histórias arrebatadoras dos livros “O Pomar das Almas Perdidas” e “O Verão em que Mamãe teve Olhos Verdes” te encontram nesta edição de “O Que Ler Agora?”.2021-11-1520 min
The Bookcast Club#59 Reviewing the Booker Shortlist with KD BooksSend us a Text Message.It's that time of year again! Sarah K welcomes back Kieran from KDBooks to talk all things Booker. They share their thoughts on each of the shortlisted Booker books, and discuss their thoughts on the winner. We hope you enjoy the episode!This episode is fully transcribed. The episode transcript should be accessible from within your podcasting app or directly from Buzzsprout.Kieran's linksYoutube channel [KDBooks]Playlist of Kieran's reviews of the longlistInstagram: @kdbooksSupport The...2021-11-1250 minThe Bookcast Club#59 Reviewing the Booker Shortlist with KD BooksSend us a Text Message.It's that time of year again! Sarah K welcomes back Kieran from KDBooks to talk all things Booker. They share their thoughts on each of the shortlisted Booker books, and discuss their thoughts on the winner. We hope you enjoy the episode!This episode is fully transcribed. The episode transcript should be accessible from within your podcasting app or directly from Buzzsprout.Kieran's linksYoutube channel [KDBooks]Playlist of Kieran's reviews of the longlistInstagram: @kdbooksSupport The...2021-11-1250 minFront RowThe 2021 Booker Prize CeremonyShortlisted authors Anuk Arudpragasam, Damon Galgut, Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed, Richard Powers and Maggie Shipstead join Samira Ahmed live in Broadcasting House's Radio Theatre for the announcement of the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize.Last year's winner Douglas Stuart is in conversation with HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. And 30 years on from his historic Booker win, Ben Okri reflects on how the prize changed his life.Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Simon Richardson2021-11-0342 min
Shelf Awareness - with @bookishjenx#6 Reading the Booker Shortlist 2021: The Fortune Men - Nadifa MohamedWe talk about The Fortune Men in this episode and how it deals with racism, post-war Britain and multiculturalism. 2021-11-0118 minFront RowThe reopening of the Hall for Cornwall, Paul McCartney on Eleanor Rigby and Booker Prize nominated author Nadifa MohamedFront Row visits Truro to report on the re-opening of the Hall for Cornwall after a 3 year, £26million refurbishment. The new 1300 auditorium complements the granite of the old building, and the Cornish landscape. And the opening show – the world premiere of the Fisherman’s Friends musical, of course.We hear from Matt Hemley, News Editor for The Stage, about the ongoing affect of Covid on theatre audiences.Paul McCartney tell us how he wrote Eleanor Rigby.And Nadifa Mohamed joins a group of Front Row listeners for our latest Booker Prize Book Group, discu...2021-10-2742 min
Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIBBooker Special 2021 Part 1: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgud & Nadifa MohamedThis week we’re taking a look at some of the novels shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize:
Maggie Shipstead considers the significant role played by women in the early history of aviation in her barnstorming novel 'Great Circle'.
Damon Galgut takes a wry look at life, death and the broken promise of post-Apartheid South Africa.
Nadifa Mohamed transports us back to 1950s Cardiff to re-examine a notorious miscarriage of justice.
And we return to Maggie Shipstead for the Books of Her Life.2021-10-2257 min
The Straits Times PodcastsHooked on the Booker Prize? Not quite: Bookmark This! Ep 25Bookmark This! Ep 25: Hooked on the Booker Prize? Not quite 25:13 mins Synopsis: A monthly literary podcast by The Straits Times featuring titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.In the latest episode of this literary podcast, The Straits Times journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li lay down what they loved (and didn’t) about the six books on this year’s Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist, from heavyweights such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers and three-time Booker nominee Damon Galgut to shortlist debuts like Patricia Lockwood's social media-inflected No One Is Talking Abou...2021-10-2225 min
ISIRKAS2EP10. UBAXII KACAANKA 50 YEARS LATERIn this episode I reflect on and discuss Oct 21, 1969, the day the Somali nation was changed forever. Its been over 50 years since Barre took up power but the way he shaped Somali nationalism, community and identity has altered us forever. This episode is titled "Ubaxii Kacaanka 50 years later" as a way to make sense of how the young kids who were raised on his ideologies are now mature adults who are identifying themselves in a way that works for them. Your childhood does not have to circumscribe your life unless you allow It to. Learning and unlearning social norms that...2021-10-2232 min
The Boundless Book ClubThe Booker Prize Snub episodeIn this episode, Andrea and Annabelle are joined by Mazen Nahawi, enthusiastic reader and Founder and CEO of media intelligence firm CARMA, here to add some intelligence to the conversation about one of the highest profile snubs this year. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is no stranger to the Booker Prize, having won the award in 1989 for The Remains of the Day, and let’s not forget, a whole raft of other awards including the Nobel Prize and an OBE. After the longlist was announced in July, Ishiguro was a joint favourite to win with his latest book...2021-10-1815 min
The Book ShowNadifa MohamedIn 1952, Somali seaman Mahmood Mattan, convicted of the murder of a local shopkeeper, became the last man to be hanged in Cardiff. Forty-five years later, his conviction was quashed. In The Fortune Men, the British-Somali writer Nadifa Mohamed takes this true story and gives it a novel treatment. Amongst the bustling, multiracial town of Tiger Bay, we meet Mattan, a man of quiet dignity and anger, and the corrupt and racist police who frame him for murder. Mohamed also paints a sympathetic portrait of the murder victim, here renamed Violet Volacki. Nadifa Mohamed is speaking to Claire Nichols.2021-10-1410 min
The Book Show‘It became brutal’ —John Boyne responds to a twitter storm in Echo ChamberIn 2019, John Boyne faced huge online backlash for a book he wrote about a trans teenager and he's channelled that experience in to his new comic novel, The Echo Chamber.Also, Booker Prize shortlisted author Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men and Emily Bitto’s Wild Abandon, about men, booze, tigers and America.2021-10-1154 min
Sunday Book ReviewSeptember 19, 2021, the 2021 Booker editionIn today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:· The Promise by Damon Galgut.· No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood.· Bewilderment by Richard Powers.· Through our Enemies' Eyes by Michael Scheuer.· The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.· The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed.· The Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-09-1906 min
Dan Snow's History HitThe Last Hanging in Cardiff PrisonIn September 1952 Mahmood Hussein Mattan became the last to be hanged at Cardiff Prison, but Mahmood had in fact been framed by the police and 45 years later his conviction was quashed. Mahmood had been a merchant seaman who had ended up settling in Cardiff and marrying a Welsh woman called Laura Williams. They lived in the Tiger Bay district of Cardiff and had three children but in 1950 had separated. Mahmood had had a number of encounters with the police and had committed some minor offences such as small thefts. His vocal distrust of the police had made him unpopular...2021-09-1427 min
The Sunday Salon with Alice-Azania JarvisNadifa Mohamed on turning real-life into fiction and why 'fallow time' is keyI loved this conversation: Nadifa Mohamed is an award-winning novelist whose most recent book The Fortune Men is a dazzling account of the real-life events surrounding the wrongful imprisonment and execution of a Somali seaman and father, who was the last man to be hanged in Cardiff prison. Set in Tiger Bay in the 1950s and fusing historical reportage and literary fiction, it has just been longlisted for a Booker prize - and quite right too. I loved talking to Nadifa about her unique approach to writing - her first book Black Mamba Boy was similarly inventive: part novel...2021-08-1539 min
Stance Podcast with Chrystal GenesisStance Takes: MFest Muslim Knowledge & Creativity w/ Author Nadifa Mohamed; Journalist Rokhaya Diallo; MP Zarah Sultana; TV Director Nida Manzoor; Historian Blair Imani and more.Stance Takes is back covering MFest, a multi-arts festival of Muslim knowledge and creativity with Maslaha with The British Library. We bring highlights from the festival, sharing an immersive glimpse from its programme, and speak with award-winning Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed. The Fortune Men, covers the true story of the wrongful imprisonment and execution of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, a Somali seaman, in Wales. The book is a reimagined version of Mahmood Hussein Mattan's real life. We connect anti-racist struggles internationally with France-based journalist Rokhaya Diallo, UK Labour MP Zarah Sultana and US-based writer Hoda Katebi.2021-07-2040 min
The Trans-AtlanticistNovel RomAntics #5: Lesley Nneka Arimah's What It Means When a Man Falls from the Skywith Douglas Cowie and Nadifa Mohamed
In this episode, novelist Nadifa Mohamed and host Douglas Cowie discuss What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, a collection of short stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah. They discuss several of the stories, and the overlaps and differences in cultural expectations between the United States and Africa, the pressures of young womanhood, and more. Nadifa Mohamed's latest novel, The Fortune Men, is published by Penguin, and will be available in German from September, under the titel Der Geist von Tiger Bay, published by C.H. Beck Verlag.2021-06-1745 minArts & IdeasNadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan ThomasA Somali man arrested for murder in 1950s Cardiff inspired the latest novel from Nadifa Mohamed. She talks to Rana Mitter about uncovering this miscarriage of justice in a newspaper cutting with the headline, "Woman Weeps as Somali is Hanged". On stage at the National Theatre in London, Michael Sheen, Karl Johnson, and Siân Phillips lead the cast in a production of Under Milk Wood, so we look at the craft of Dylan Thomas's writing and talk to Siân Owen about her framing of the story for the National Theatre stage. And we hear about the links be...2021-06-1544 minFront RowChris Addison on Breeders; Nadifa Mohamed's new novel; BBC Proms 2021 debutsBreeders is a highly successful TV comedy series that looks honestly and unflinchingly at the difficulties (and rewards) of parenting. It’s just about to return for a second series and we speak with director and co-creator Chris Addison whose own work includes stand-up, acting and directing shows such as The Thick of It, In The Loop, Veep and many many more.Novelist Nadifa Mohamed tells us about the 17 year journey to publishing her novel The Fortune Men, the true story of the wrongful conviction of a Somali sailor in Cardiff's Tiger Bay in 1952.With th...2021-05-2728 min
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award by Nadifa MohamedPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487906to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award
Author: Nadifa Mohamed
Narrator: Hugh Quarshie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Release date: May 27, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 & THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many...2021-05-2710h 32Explore New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalThe Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award by Nadifa MohamedPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487906to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award
Author: Nadifa Mohamed
Narrator: Hugh Quarshie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Release date: May 27, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 & THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many...2021-05-2710h 32Arts & IdeasMarlon James and Neil GaimanFrom the appeal of trickster gods Anansi and Loki to the joy of comics and fantasy: Booker prize winner Marlon James and Neil Gaiman, author of the book American Gods which has been turned into a TV series, talk writing and reading with Matthew Sweet in a conversation organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the British Library.Neil Gaiman is an author of books for children and adults whose titles include Norse Mythology, American Gods, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Coraline, and the Sandman graphic novels. He also writes children's...2021-05-1145 min
ScotThoughtsHeart and Soul 25/4/21Nadifa Mohamed chooses Purcell's Dido's Lament and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater as her favourite songs. Malcolm Guite reads his version of Psalm 5, followed by Tchaikovsky's Cherubic Hymn. Adrian Plass describes an amusing visit to his local hardware store.2021-04-2548 min
ScotThoughtsHeart and Soul 18/4/21Melvyn Bragg completes his survey of early Methodism. Adrian Plass describes the early disciples as a Motley Crew. Malcolm Guite brings Psalm 12 up to date. Michael Berkeley introduces the novelist Nadifa Mohamed.2021-04-1849 minArts & IdeasOctavia Butler's Kindred"A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles" is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to "tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know." Since her death in 2006, her writing has been widely taken up and praised for its foresight in suggesting developments such as big pharma and for its critique of American history. Shahidha Bari is joined by the author Irenosen Okojie and the scholar Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl, writer, editor, journalist – and long-time friend of Octavia Butler.Irenosen Okojie's latest collection of sh...2021-04-1344 minFront RowInternational Booker Prize longlist reviewed, Joanne Harris, Who should translate work?Novelist Nadifa Mohamed and translator Maureen Freely review the just-announced longlist for the International Booker Prize 2021.Author Joanne Harris talks to her Italian translator Laura Grandi, her collaborator of 22 years, about their special partnership.Plus writer and artist Khairani Barokka and Maureen Freely explore the question of how to choose who is the best person to translate each text, in light of the recent departure of several translators from the project of translating the work of Black US inauguration poet Amanda Gorman. Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Simon Richardson
Studio Engineer: Donald MacDonald2021-03-3028 min
How To ProceedÉdouard LouisOur guest in this episode is the French writer Édouard Louis. He talks about writing for your enemies, Black Lives Matter, Toni Morrison and ghosts at the table. Read more in our show notes here.Talking to Louis is the British writer Nadifa Mohamed, one of three guest interviewers as Linn Ullmann takes some time off to finish her novel. You can read more about Mohamed and our two other guest interviewers here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2021-01-271h 10Private PassionsNadifa MohamedSince the publication of her first novel while she was still in her twenties, Nadifa Mohamed has been a writer to watch. Her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, won her the Somerset Maugham Award and gave her a place on the prestigious Granta List of Best Young Novelists. She’s about to publish her third novel, and is also turning it into an opera – a commission from the Royal Opera House. What’s striking in all her work is the epic sweep of her storytelling, which explores themes of exile and survival: her characters are caught up by war...2021-01-1735 min
How To ProceedArundhati RoyThe pandemic is a portal between one world and another, an opportunity to image another world, says the award-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy.In this episode, Roy talks about fathers, fascism, beauty, love, and the search for words. Talking to Roy is the critically acclaimed British-Somali author Nadifa Mohamed, the first of three guest interviewers as Linn Ullmann takes some time off to finish her novel. You can read more about Mohamed and our two other guest interviewers in our show notes.Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn L...2020-11-271h 10
OdaraFMEP 004 - Nadifa Mohamed - Pomar das Almas PerdidasBem-Vindas e Bem-Vindos! Neste episódio falaremos sobre o livro "O Pomar das Almas Perdidas", livro da escritora somali-britânica Nadifa Mohamed, publicano no Brasil em 2016 pela editora Tordesilhas. Nesta obra a autora nos conta sobre a vida de três mulheres em meio ao contexto da guerra civil na Somália.2020-11-2009 minArts & IdeasPoet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermidPoet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid discuss capturing different forms of speech, a sense of place, and politics - in a conversation organised with the Royal Society of Literature and Durham Book Festival, and hosted by presenter Shahidha Bari. Plus, how the medieval fable of Reynard the Fox has lessons for us all today. As a new translation and retelling by Anne Louise Avery is published, she joins Shahidha to discuss the book with Noreen Masud - a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker from Durham University. Based on William Caxton's translation of the medieval Flemish...2020-10-1444 min
On Things We Left BehindThe Tapes That Bind – Part 1Nadifa Mohamed shows us the world that her family’s letter tapes have helped create. Letter tapes are cassette tapes recorded with messages from families and friends. In this episode, we discover how these tapes became a window into the world before a war. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-08-3127 minArts & IdeasIrenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeologyThe writing life of two authors who should have been sharing a stage at the Bare Lit Festival. Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohammed talk to Shahidha Bari in a conversation organised with the Royal Society of Literature. And 2020 New Generation Thinker Seren Griffiths describes a project to use music by composer at an archaeological site to mark the summer solstice and the findings of her dig.The Somali-British novelist Nadifa Mohamed featured on Granta magazine's list "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers under 40. Her first novel Black Mamba Boy...2020-06-2248 min
Book Nomad: Reading the WorldEp. 32. Reading Far Away LandsIn this first of the new theme-based episodes, Assia and I explore reading books from countries we know little about! Discovering connections across the world. "A book is not holier than a tweet." © 2019 Assia Reading what we know is more comfortable. Follow Assia on Instagram and Twitter: @shereadsox. Books mentioned Amina's picks Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov To read: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Assia's picks Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa When We Were Arabs by Massoud Hayoun Train to Pakistan by Khu...2019-07-071h 49Litteraturhusets podkastValeria Luiselli, Teju Cole og Nadifa MohamedI essayet Tell me How it Ends: an Essay in Forty Questions, undersøker den meksikanske forfatteren Valeria Luiselli latin-amerikanske barnemigranters skjebner både i og på vei til USA. Luiselli selv er bosatt i USA, og i en akutt flyktningsituasjon meldte hun seg som tolk og fikk førstehåndskjennskap til volden og diskrimineringen som flyktningene utsettes for. Fotograf, forfatter og performance-kunstner Teju Cole er født i Nigeria, men har levd store deler av livet i New York og USA. Han har flere ganger trukket paralleller mellom bølgene av latin-amerikanske immigranter som kommer til USA og båtflyk...2018-09-141h 02LitHouse podcastValeria Luiselli, Teju Cole and Nadifa MohamedIn her essay Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli explores the fates of Latin American child migrants in and on their way to the US. Luiselli herself lives in the US, and in an acute refugee situation, she volunteered as an interpreter and gained first hand knowledge about the violence and discrimination that the refugees experience. Photographer, writer and performance artist Teju Cole was born in Nigeria, but has lived in New York and the US for much of his life. On several occasions, he has pointed out parallels in the...2018-09-141h 02
Book Nomad: Reading the WorldEp. 1. Somalia: Black Mamba BoyOn this journey: - What's the Book Nomad all about? - You didn't study this WWII history at school. - Is the Somali network real? Book in focus: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed (Somalia) Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast2018-05-1313 min
Great Writers Inspire at HomeNadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba BoyNadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain. In discussion with Dr Kate Wallis, she talks about the process of writing the novel, and how it has been read and received in Britain and elsewhere.2017-08-2554 minGreat Writers Inspire at HomeNadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba BoyNadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain. In discussion with Dr Kate Wallis, she talks about the process of writing the novel, and how it has been read and received in Britain and elsewhere.2017-08-2554 min
Africa: Stories in the 55Africa: Stories in the 55 - Surviving the outbreak of the Somali civil war; academic finds modern-day parallels to 19th century Muslim leaderIn this month's Africa: Stories in the 55, we take a look at two award-winning writers - Somali author Nadifa Mohamed, and Leila Abulela, Sudanese novelist - who speak about the influences on their craft.
Life in Somalia becomes increasingly difficult before the start of the country's civil war. The lives of two women and a girl intertwine in the final days before chaos breaks out in The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed. Partially inspired by her own grandmother, Mohamed speaks to Stories in the 55 about her novel, current writing and reads an excerpt from her award-winning work:
Manoeuvering...2017-02-1300 min
Africa: Stories in the 55Surviving the outbreak of the Somali civil war; academic finds modern-day parallels to 19th century Muslim leaderIn this month's Africa: Stories in the 55, we take a look at two award-winning writers - Somali author Nadifa Mohamed, and Leila Abulela, Sudanese novelist - who speak about the influences on their craft. Life in Somalia becomes increasingly difficult before the start of the country's civil war. The lives of two women and a girl intertwine in the final days before chaos breaks out in The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed. Partially inspired by her own grandmother, Mohamed speaks to Stories in the 55 about her novel, current writing and reads an excerpt from her...2017-02-1325 min
Africa: Stories in the 55Africa: Stories in the 55 - Surviving the outbreak of the Somali civil war; academic finds modern-day parallels to 19th century Muslim leaderIn this month's Africa: Stories in the 55, we take a look at two award-winning writers - Somali author Nadifa Mohamed, and Leila Abulela, Sudanese novelist - who speak about the influences on their craft.2017-02-1325 min
A Good ReadCharles Moore and Nadifa MohamedJournalist and Margaret Thatcher's biographer Charles Moore, and writer Nadifa Mohamed, join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Jane Austen, Kester Aspden and Patrick de Witt. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Publisher: Wordsworth ClassicsUndermajordomo Minor by Patrick de Witt
Publisher: GrantaThe Hounding of David Oluwale by Kester Aspden
Publisher: VintageFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016.2016-11-2227 min
Avon BooksREADER, I MARRIED HIM edited by Tracy ChevalierPerformed by Laura Kirman
About the Book
This collection of original stories by today’s finest woman writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.
A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her books featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literature’s best-known lines: “Reader, I married him” from her classic novel Jane Eyre?
Part of a remarkable family that produced three acclaimed female writers at a time in nineteenth-century Britain when few women wrote, and f...2016-05-2405 min
Bokmagasinet podcastBokmagasinet podcast: Bokmagasinet med glimtar från Helsinki LitBokmagasinet besöker litteraturfestivalen Helsinki LitFest och träffar bl.a. den ryska författaren Michail Sjisjkin skriver om ormbunksväxten venushår som en metafor för mänsklig värme och kärlek i en berättelse som vindlar genom olika länder och städer samt tidsepoker.
Nadifa Mohamed skriver om tre kvinnors kamp för överlevnad i 1980-talets Somalia, ett land drabbat av inbördeskrig och politiskt kaos.
Programvärdar är Anna Dönsberg och Marit Lindqvist.2015-05-2439 min
Lundströms BokradioMamma. Mormor. Att inte svika ett förtroende.Ett närgånget mammaporträtt, dofter av Somalia, journalistik och politik, glädjen i research och motståndet mot att skriva - möt författarna Jenny Nordberg, Erik Wijk och Nadifa Mohamed. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Att författaren Erik Wijk överhuvudtaget finns till är lite av ett mirakel, och som barn levde han många år i tron att han var den nye Jesus. Av sin mamma var han sannerligen utvald. Nu kommer Erik Wijks bok om mamma Ulla Wijk, om en stark och komplicerad kärlek. Bara de riktiga ord...2015-03-0743 min
Front Row WeeklyFR: Tom Stoppard, Nadifa Mohamed, Vince GilliganDramatist Tom Stoppard on why he has adapted a famous rock album for radio; novelist Charlaine Harris on getting it in the neck from readers for ending her True Blood vampire series; Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and comedians Jonny Sweet and Simon Bird talk about their new World War I sit-com. Novelist Nadifa Mohamed explores in fiction the Somalian childhood she never had and John Wilson meets producer-musician Naughty Bo and closes down the Cultural Exchange with Armando Iannucci.2013-08-231h 08
Front Row: Archive 2013Vince Gilligan, What Maisie Knew, Nadifa MohamedWith Mark Lawson.Mark meets Vince Gilligan, the creator of hit American TV series Breaking Bad, about a chemistry teacher who becomes a drugs overload after being diagnosed with cancer.Meg Rosoff reviews the film What Maisie Knew. Based on the 1897 novel by Henry James, the film is set in modern day New York and stars Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan as parents going through an acrimonious custody battle, in which their young daughter Maisie has become a pawn.Nadifa Mohamed, the award winning author of Black Mamba Boy, discusses her second novel...2013-08-2128 min
Saturday ReviewAlan Partridge: Alpha Papa; Big School; The Same Deep Water as MeSteve Coogan is back and stars in the film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa; which portrays the events of the greatest low-to-high ebb spectrum in Alan's life to date, namely how he tries to salvage his public career while negotiating a violent turn of events at North Norfolk Digital Radio.Had an accident at work? Tripped on a paving slab? Cut yourself shaving? You could be entitled to compensation. In Nick Payne's new play The Same Deep Water As Me, Andrew and Barry at Scorpion Claims, Luton's finest personal injury lawyers, are the men for you. When Kevin...2013-08-1041 min
GrantaNadifa Mohamed: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 59Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Nadifa Mohamed. Mohamed was born in Somalia and moved to Britain in 1986. Here she spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about how her first novel, Black Mamba Boy (which won the Betty Trask Award), was inspired by her father’s journey to the UK from Somalia, and how that process brought them closer together. They also spoke about her arrival from Somalia, growing up in Tooting and how she believed from a young age that cats were spies for the go...2013-05-2231 min