Nurudin Farah- 1st Somali..Nobel Prize in Literature

[The_Patriot]

Voltage why does he claim that he was born in Somalia while he wasnt? If Nuradeen wrote his work in afsomaali he would have got much of the audience. And by the way when writing a piece of work that is political oriented who do you intend to impart the message to ? the parties involved or a foreign audience?

2. Nuruddin would not have gotten a much bigger or even same audience had he written in Somalia. Heck I am fluent Somali speaker and he would not have gotten even my audience. English is the most universal language and no amount of pride can change the power and influence you wield as a writer by writing in English.

Sorry for my typing Error I did want to imply that he would not be much popular if he wrote in somali.

But the bottom line is he is still crap. Yo can use 101 alias names but when writing baout yourself you simply cannot deny your birth place. Becasue nobody would ever trust a writer who is not confident on where he was born.

[FAH1223]

Voltage why does he claim that he was born in Somalia while he wasnt? If Nuradeen wrote his work in afsomaali he would have got much of the audience. And by the way when writing a piece of work that is political oriented who do you intend to impart the message to ? the parties involved or a foreign audience?

2. Nuruddin would not have gotten a much bigger or even same audience had he written in Somalia. Heck I am fluent Somali speaker and he would not have gotten even my audience. English is the most universal language and no amount of pride can change the power and influence you wield as a writer by writing in English.

Sorry for my typing Error I did want to imply that he would not be much popular if he wrote in somali.

But the bottom line is he is still crap. Yo can use 101 alias names but when writing baout yourself you simply cannot deny your birth place. Becasue nobody would ever trust a writer who is not confident on where he was born.

what difference does it make? his global audience can't tell the difference between the little towns or tuulos anyway

[Voltage]

He was born in BAYDHABO. He moved to Ogaden where he says his grandfathers are from. He knows his life.

End of story.

[The_Patriot]

Yeah then he whould have stuck to being Somali why does he claim to be born in Somalia and specifically Baidoa? While he is not ?
Does that not say much about his character?

[The_Patriot]

He was born in BAYDHABO. He moved to Ogaden where he says his grandfathers are from. He knows his life.

End of story.

No he was never born in Baydhabo. I aslo beleive he was educated in the Ethiopian missionary schools.

[Basra-]

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Voltage i just scanned through the video and this man is a habitual LIAR!!! He likes to be dramatic and exerggerates or heightens perceived perscutions just because as he calls himself he is a 'secularist'. He is capitalizing in the conflicts of somalia by selling his book and himself as a national treasure of something. At the beginning of the video the host was trying to acertain his wheraabouts in somalia, innocently or uninocently-- he asked nurradin if he was in mogadhishu at first when he started writing, and the man started to starmer and murmuer, and scratch his head deseprately trying to think before answering. I do seriously believe he is from ethiopian as the patriot says and judging by his stummers or scatching of his head when asked about his where abouts in somalia.He was trying to keep tracks of his many lies no doubt. I liked the charming story he told about the somali man asking him to write a letter to his wife and making him write if she did not return he will go beat her and drag her back. Farah says instead he wrote i will divorce u if u dont come back. Here this narccisist man portrays himself as this progressive child of 9 years old with such calm wise brilliancy.Now i am not questioning whether the tale ever happened, he would as a writer be the sensitive type not to write such threatening in the letter to the wife, but i fail to really believe this man at all. Nurradin is certainly charming and knows how to play his cards. He recounts jokingly and certainly gets some good laugh about how he knew at 9 years old the letter writing business would be flourishing, meaning of course that his people didnt write and that he had a special gift. True or not, he didnt have to play down his people just to add some pointers of laugh. Also i doubt those days there were so many illeterates as you Vo have mentioned in above posts, unless he lived in the baadiye of somalia or ogadenia in ethiopia. Or not so, maybe he had a just a few times written letters for old men, his fathers age who might not have been literate.I mean my grand mother certainly doesnt write or read arabic or english. Me and sibblings wrote it for her.So this might be a case of a youth who is lucky to have an education system in his era and possibly education was new in his village was doin what every somali household was doing. But Nurradin as a ficitional writer certainly would exaggerate and say, oh i was the "chosen writer one"!

Several times i have seen him telling a lie in the video--- he scratches his head when he does that. One of the moments he does is when he recollects having two guns on both side of his head in capetown south africa. Now this man is a habitual fictional story teller, or a liar to be exact, even the host has captured on his habitual lies when Nurradin kept on and on about how he knew he was gifted from the getgo as a child, when he would cut out any printings with the nurradin name and he would stick it a book and tell his friends, here i am a writer.The host jumps with a freudian retort--- "fictinal writer' looooool Clearly saying not to clarify his type of genre type writing but empasizing on what he is. A liar or a fictional writer.