Nuruddin Farah reads from "Knots"

The second LIFELINES edition focuses on Nuruddin Farah, acclaimed as one of Africa’s greatest contemporary writers and regarded as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Together with Nuruddin Farah, LIFELINES explores his biographical and literary paths in an exchange with friends and fellow-writers past and present.

19 h Opening

Bernd M. Scherer, Director Haus der Kulturen Welt

19.30 h Nuruddin Farah reads from "Knots"

Reading, discussion

“Knots”, Farah’s latest work, is due out in German in November. The novel explores Somali realities beyond the cliché of a ‘failed state’ and features Cambara, an unforgettable protagonist. Cambara, returning to Somalia from Toronto, her adopted home town, finds allies in Mogadishu for “knots” of reason in a world of destruction and decay.

Moderation and introduction to Farah’s work: Hans Christoph Buch

Reading of the German translation: Nina Petri

Writer, literary critic, and journalist, Hans Christoph Buch is a longtime friend of Nuruddin Farah and has published widely on Africa and its literature.
Nina Petri read the audio book version of Nuruddin Farah’s “Secrets”.

In co-operation with Suhrkamp Verlag