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Become a character in a future book… Nadifa Mohamed Closed

Become a character in a future book… Nadifa Mohamed


Current Bid £750
Bidder Tom Yusef
Bids Placed5
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Description

Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, in 1981 and moved to Britain at the age of four. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won the Betty Trask Prize; it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the PEN Open Book Award.

Her second novel, Orchard of Lost Souls, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Prix Albert Bernard. Nadifa Mohamed was selected for the Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Fortune Men was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Terms and conditions: By bidding in this auction you are aware that the author has full artistic licence over how and for what type of character they use the given name. You understand that the author retains the right to choose which future novel your character will appear in.

Kindly donated by Nadifa Mohamed