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Abdillahi Diiriye Guled
Abdillahi Diiriye Guled also known as Arale/Caraale ( so, Cabdillaahi Diiriye Guuleed) is a Somali literary scholar, Prosodist and is credited with the discovery of the Somali Scansion system. Biography and career Arale was the son of Aw Diiriye Guled, a famed poet who participated in the ''Silsilada Xaydha'' serial poems and who founded the town of Gashamo. Arale studied and majored in English at the Somali National University.While working as an English teacher, in his free time he studied Somali scansion. He also contributed to the Somali curriculum by writing the first Somali text books for the first generation of primary and secondary students that were to be taught in Somali, as opposed to English or Arabic. In 1978 he became a lecturer in the Somali department of language and literature of the Somali National university. Somali scansion discovery Arale discovered that the classical Somali genres of Geerar, Gabay, Jiifto and Hees, were not to be scanned by tones or stress pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zam Zam Abdullahi Abdi
Zam Zam Abdullahi Abdi is a Somali journalist and human rights activist. She focuses in particular on the rights of women and children. She is a dual citizen of Somalia and Kenya. Activism Abdi is the capacity building officer for the Coalition of Grassroots Women's Organizations and chairperson of the Somali Chapter of the African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect. Abdi works for easier access to education for Somali women. Kidnapping In 2004, while in charge of information for the Association of Somali Women Journalists, Abdi was abducted and held by armed individuals from 24 October to the 25th in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. She believes that she was kidnapped because of her activities in defense of children. 2016 terrorism allegations In October 2016, Zam Zam Abdullahi Abdi went on trial in Kenya's High Court. She was accused of bombing a police station in Mombasa Mombasa ( ; ) is a coastal city in southeaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Writers
The following are lists of writers: Alphabetical indices A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z Lists by genre Top of page Lists by language (non-English) Top of page Lists by ethnicity or nationality Top of page Lists of women writers and works Main list * Women writers: (A-L), (M-Z) By country Other lists of women writers Top of page Lists by publisher * List of Alfred A. Knopf authors * List of Minerva Press authors Top of page See also * Lists of books * List of literary awards External links * * "Poets & Writers Directory."''Poets & Writers'' "Authors A-Z."''The Guardian'' "Browse By Author."''Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize, chosen from a shortlist of six candidates out of a total 655 entries. Her words "No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark", from the poem "Conversations about Home (at a deportation centre)", have been called "a rallying call for refugees and their advocates". Life and career Born on 1 August 1988 in Kenya to Somali parents, Shire migrated with her family to the United Kingdom at the age of one. She has four siblings. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing. As of 2015, she primarily resides in Los Angeles, California. In 2011, she released ''Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth'', a poetry pamphlet published by flipped eye. Her full collection was released in 2016, also through flipped eye. Shire has read her poetry in various artistic venues through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cali Xuseen Xirsi
Yamyam (born Abdulkadir Hersi Siyad, 4 September 1946 – October 22, 2005) ( so, Cabdiqaadir Xirsi Siyaad (Yamyam), ar, "عبد قادر حرس سياد "يميم) or Yam Yam was a Somali poet and playwright. Yamyam was one of the main contributors for the Somali National Academy of Culture (SNAC), also known as the Somali National Academy of Arts, Sciences and Literature. He was active as a poet from the 1960s. There is no one consistent English translation of his name. Alternative spellings include Cabdulqaadir or Cabdilqaadir Xirsi. Early life and education Yamyam was born in the city of Dhuusa Mareeb, Galgadud Region. Yamyam's mother was Canoof Ibraahim. He was the youngest child of 6 and the only son to his mother as his other siblings had a different mother. Yamyam started attending Madrasa at age four and he finished studying the Quran by age eight. He attended the Somali School of Natural Sciences. He moved to the north-west of the country to pursue further education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdourahman Waberi
Abdourahman A. Waberi ( so, Cabdiraxmaan Waaberi) is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic and short-story writer from Djibouti. Early life Abdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti City in the French Somali Coast, the current Republic of Djibouti. He went to France in 1985 to study English literature. Waberi worked as a literary consultant for Editions Le Serpent à plumes, Paris, and as a literary critic for Le Monde Diplomatique. He has been a member of the International Jury for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage (Berlin, Germany), 2003 & 2004. Career Waberi worked as an English teacher at Caen, France, where he has lived for most of time since 1985. He was awarded with several honors including the Stefan-George-Preis 2006, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1996 and the Prix biennal " Mandat pour la liberté " – offered by PEN France, 1998. In 2005, he was chosen amongst the "50 Writers of Future" by French literary m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade
Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed "Timacadde" ( so, Cabdilaahi Suldaan Maxamed, ar, عبد الله سلطان محمد) was a Somali poet. He was among the most prominent bards of his day. Biography Timacade was born in 1920 in the small town of Galooley, situated near Gabiley in British Somaliland, now ( Somaliland). He hailed from the Jibril Abokor, a Sa'ad Musa sub-division of the Habr Awal Isaaq clan that predominantly inhabits the Gabiley region. In Galooley, Abdillahi Suldaan attended the local Qur’anic school. In his early teens he started composing and reciting poetry (initially, he could neither read nor write). His father and mother died when Abdillahi was very young. In 1936, Abdillahi Suldaan migrated to Harar, where he worked in a restaurant owned by one of his uncles. After having spent some time in Ethiopia and Djibouti in the 1940s and 1950s, he returned to Gabiley and took part in the independence movements against the then ruling British administration of the forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Said Sheikh Samatar
Said Sheikh Samatar ( so, Siciid Sheekh Samatar, ar, سعيد الشيخ سمتر; 1943–24 February 2015) was a prominent Somali scholar and writer. Biography Early years Said was born in 1943 in the Ogaden in Ethiopia to Faduma and Sheikh Samatar. He came from a large family consisting of fourteen people, including his father's second wife. He hailed from the Somali Leelkase/Fiqi Ismaciil subclan. Samatar spent his early years in a nomadic environment, where he writes that "seasons of plenty" with "fragrant flowers blooming all over the fallowed fields, abundant milk and meat" alternated with the "perennial threat of starvation during droughts, marauding gangs of enemy clans bent on murder and mayhem, stripping you of your livestock, the ever-present danger of ravenous predators." In 1958, Said's father, who had been working for the government as an Islamic magistrate since 1948, sent for him to begin schooling. Samatar subsequently moved to the town of Qalaafo, tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Sheikh Mumin
Hassan Sheikh Mumin ( so, Xasan Sheekh Muumiin, ar, حسن الشيخ مؤمن) (1931 – 16 January 2008) was a Somali poet, playwright, broadcaster, actor and composer. Biography Mumin was born in 1931 in the northwestern town of Zelia, then a part of the British Somaliland protectorate. When he was nine years old, he and his family moved to Borama, where he graduated from school and frequented a local madrasah. Mumin later joined the Somali Youth League (SYL), Somalia's first political party founded during the pre-independence period. He wrote and published his first poem for an SYL rally in Borama in the early 1950s. After Somalia obtained its independence in 1960, Mumin worked at Radio Mogadishu between 1965 and 1968 as a resident poet, playwright and lecturer. He later held a position in the national Department of Education and Culture. After the 1969 military coup d'etat that saw the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) assume power, various cultural works wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed ( so, Nadiifa Maxamed, ar, نظيفة محمد) (born 1981) is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on ''Granta'' magazine's list "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Her 2021 novel, '' The Fortune Men'', was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, making her the first British Somali novelist to get this honour. She has also written short stories, essays, memoirs and articles in outlets including ''The Guardian'', and contributed poetry to the anthology '' New Daughters of Africa'' (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019). She was also a lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London until 2021. She will be Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University in Spring 2022. Personal life Mohamed was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dada Masiti
Mana Sitti Habib Jamaladdin ( ar, مانا ستي حبيب جمال الدين) ( 1810s – 15 July 1919), commonly known as Dada Masiti ("Grandmother Masiti"), was a Somali poet, mystic and Islamic scholar. She composed her poetry in the Bravanese dialect spoken in Barawa. Biography Dada Masiti was born Mana Sitti Habib Jamaladdin in the 1810s in Barawa (Brava), a coastal town in southern Somalia. Her family on both sides hailed from the Mahadali Ashraf clan. Her mother's maternal grandfather also belonged to the Ali Naziri Ashraf, which commanded more influence in the area and was the larger of the two subclans. The Ashraf had first established residence in Barawa around the start of the 1600s, and ultimately traced their lineage to the Prophet Muhammad. Like the claims of other Somali clans in this regard, this alleged genealogy is historically untenable. What is known about Dada Masiti's early years is exclusively derived from different oral traditions. Accounts endorsed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdi Sheik Abdi
Abdi Abdulkadir Sheik-Abdi ( so, Cabdi Sheekh Cabdi, ar, عبدي عبد القادر الشيخ عبدي) (born 15 November 1942, Somalia) is a Somali author based in the United States. Academia Sheikh-Abdi holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature and African Studies from the State University of New York and a doctorate in African History from Boston University. He has taught both in Somalia and the U.S., and is the author of numerous short stories, two novels, a collection of fables, as well as articles and essays.Customer, A. "Amazon.com: Tales of Punt : Somali Folktales (9780963880222): Abdi Abdulkadir Sheik-Abdi: Books." Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & More. Web. 27 May 2010. . Bibliography *''The Luncheon'', 1975 *''Rotten Bananas'', 1979 *''Arrawelo: The Castrator of Men'' - a Somali fable *''Divine Madness: Mohammed Abdulle Hassan (1856-1920)'', 1993 :A book about Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the Dervish leader and em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |