Nuruddin FARAH Author, Cape Town
CV
| 1964 | Secondary schooling at Magistrale, Mogadiscio |
| 1966-1970 | BA Panjab University, Chandigarh, India |
| 1971-1974 | Lecturer, National University of Somalia |
| 1981 | Guest Professor, Bayreuth University, Germany |
| 1981-1983 | Ass. Professor, University of Jos, Nigeria |
| 1989 | Writer-in-residence, University of Minnesota |
| 1988-1990 | Makarere University, Uganda |
| 1991 | Brown University |
| 1996 | Rhodes Scholar, St Antony's College, Oxford |
| 1997 | Visiting Professor, English, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2000 | Doctor of Literature (honoris causa), University of Kent, Canterbury |
| 2006 | Ecole des Haute Etudes en Science Sociale, Paris |
| 2007 | Visiting Professor, Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2009 | Department of English, University of Berkeley Spring |
Publikationen
| Novels (selection): | |
| Secrets (3rd part of the 2nd trilogy)1998 | |
| Links (1st part of the 3rd trilogy) 2004 | |
| Knots (2nd part of the 3rd trilogy) 2007 | |
| The works have been translated into over twenty-one languages and are continuously in print. | |
| Plays (selection): | |
| Antigone 2009 | |
| People of a Halfway House: Somalis as refugees 2010 | |
| Plans are afoot to produce both Antigone and People of a Halfway House in the coming two years |
Auszeichnungen
| Selection: | |
| Mondello Prize for Doni - Gifts - Italy 1996 | |
| Neustadt Prize for Literature 1998 | |
| St Malo 1st Prize (French) for Secrets 1999 | |
| Lettre Award for Yesterday, Tomorrow (German) 2002 |
