Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Nadifa Mohamed

October 2021

  • Selma Blair wearing a jumpsuit by Alexandre Vauthier and shoes by Stuart Weitzman.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    A succession of actors, environmental activists and some live music – the best photographs commissioned by the Observer in October 2021
  • Anuk Arudpragasam, Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed; bottom from left: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgut, Richard Power

    A pioneering pilot, a vast wilderness, a drunken afternoon... Booker shortlisted authors reveal their inspirations

    Patricia Lockwood, Anuk Arudpragasam, Richard Powers and more on how they made the 2021 shortlist

    • The Audio Long Read
      Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals – podcast

    • Books interview
      Nadifa Mohamed: ‘Modern-day Britain is intense’

    • The long read
      Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals

September 2021

  • South African author Damon Galgut’s low-key satire The Promise has been announced as one of the six-strong shortlist

    Analysis: the 2021 Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our age

  • top: Anuk Arudpragasam , Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed bottom: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgut, Richard Powers

    Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist

July 2018

  • Paul Robeson<br>22nd July 1958: American singer, acclaimed actor of stage and screen, political activist and civil rights campaigner Paul Robeson (1898 - 1976), rehearses in relaxed mood at the piano. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

    No Way But This by Jeff Sparrow – in search of Paul Robeson

    Singer, actor, socialist hero, Paul Robeson made a huge impact on leftists around the world

October 2017

  • Somalis commemorate the victims of the Mogadishu truck-bomb attack that left more than 350 people dead.

    How many dead Somalis does it take for us to care?

    Nadifa Mohamed
    London, it seems, can’t even lower a flag to mark this atrocity, writes the Somali-born novelist Nadifa Mohamed

September 2013

  • Mogadishu Somalia

    The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed – review

    The Betty Trask award winner takes on a complex history of Somalian civil unrest with a focus on women, says Maya Jaggi

November 2010

  • Nadifa Mohamed

    Guardian first book award shortlist: Nadifa Mohamed

    In the second of a series of Q&As with the shortlisted authors, Nadifa Mohamed discusses her novel Black Mamba Boy

  • Nadifa Mohamed

    Books blog
    Canon and fug: clearing the cultural air with a fresh literary list

    Blog: Inspired by Nadifa Mohamed, whose writing has been shaped by a host of writers outside the western mainstream, we've been pondering an alternative literary canon. But what's on your list?

  • The writer and painter Alasdair Gray

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Alasdair Gray and Nadifa Mohamed on writing outside the canon

    We meet Nadifa Mohamed, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, and forge a literary canon for the 21st century. Plus Alasdair Gray looks back on a life lived with words and pictures

October 2010

  • Guardian first book award: tweet for your favourite author

    Read extracts from our reviews of all the shortlisted books for the Guardian first book award 2010 and send a tweet for the author you think should win

January 2010

  • First novels from Simon Lelic, Nadifa Mohamed, Alan Monaghan and Ru Freeman

    Catherine Taylor's choice of first novels

Explore more on these topics
  翻译：