Nuruddin Farah Reading at the Loft
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"Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists."—Salman Rushdie
Please join the College of St. Benedict, Graywolf Press, and the Loft in welcoming celebrated Somali author Nuruddin Farah
Thursday, February 8th
7:00 PM
The Loft Literary Center
Marshall Field's Performance Hall
1020 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55415
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Nuruddin Farah is the winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He is the author of eight novels, including, most recently, Knots. Farah says that his intention is to “keep his country alive by writing about it.” His remarkable novels, at the cost of exile from his native Somalia over twenty-five years ago, strip bare the political and social horror of a country wrought by civil war. Nuruddin Farah lives in Capetown, South Africa with his family.
In 2006 Graywolf Press reissued Farah’s trilogy Variations on the Theme of African Dictatorship in partnership with the College of Saint Benedict as part of a series honoring the legacy of S. Mariella Gable, a distinguished teacher at the College.
Available from Graywolf Press...
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