Nuruddin Farah Quotes

Somalia, Novelist
November 24, 1945

Nuruddin Farah (Somali: Nuuradiin Faarax, Arabic: نورالدين فارح‎) is a Somali novelist. He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.

There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.

Nuruddin Farah
- Life
- Win
- Loss
To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

Nuruddin Farah
- American
- Weird
- Skinny

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

Nuruddin Farah
- Writing
- Reader
- Explodes
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Nuruddin Farah
No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world’s literature.

Nuruddin Farah
Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Nuruddin Farah
- Death
- Confident
- Somalia
I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

Nuruddin Farah
- Writing
- Country
- Keep
It’s possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people’s stories.

Nuruddin Farah
- Stories
- Sorrow
- Losing