{"id":479,"date":"2009-11-20T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=479"},"modified":"2015-03-27T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:44:11","slug":"an-evening-with-nurruddin-farah","status":"publish","type":"cu-events","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu-events\/an-evening-with-nurruddin-farah\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Nurruddin Farah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University, 5050 Minto Centre<\/p>\n<p><strong>Souls in Exile: memory, creativity and opportunity: <\/strong><strong>An Evening with Nuruddin Farah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuruddin Farah<\/strong> is the author of ten novels, including From a Crooked Rib (1970), A Naked Needle (1976) followed by a series of fictional trilogies. Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship consists of Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), Sardines (1981) and Close Sesame (1983). The second con-tains Maps (1986), Gifts (1992) and Secrets (1998). A new trilogy begins with Links (2004) followed by Knots(2007). Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora (2000) is his non-fiction account of issues of migration, displacement and exile. Farah&#8217;s many awards include the Neustadt Interna-tional Prize. His books have been translated into more than 17 languages. 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