Nuruddin Farah: a life in writing

By Maya Jaggi - 'Somalia is no longer what it was. It's past reconstruction. How can you reconstruct a country that's self-destructing continuously?'

Editorial Keydmedia Online
22 September 2012

In a hotel beside a Norwegian fjord, encircled by snow-streaked mountains, the novelist and playwright Nuruddin Farah has his mind on warmer waters."Are they pirates?" he says of the Somalis who hold ships hostage off the Horn of Africa, where he was born. "What they do has the characteristics of piracy. But that wasn