This event will feature a reading by Nadifa Mohamed and conversation with Darin Strauss. A bruef audience Q&A will follow.
The Zoom video recording of this conversation is viewable (with closed captioning available) here.
The New Salon: Writers in Conversation: Nadifa Mohamed
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A Distinguished Writer in Residence at the NYU Creative Writing Program for spring 2022, Nadifa Mohamed is the author of the novels Black Mamba Boy (2010), The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013), and, most recently, The Fortune Men (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013 and elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she has received both The Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, as well as numerous other prize nominations for her fiction. She contributes regularly to the Guardian and the BBC and is a lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Darin Strauss is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, More Than it Hurts You, the NBCC-winning memoir, Half a Life, the comic-book series, Olivia Twist, and most recently the acclaimed novel, The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story (Random House, 2020). A recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Library Association Award, and numerous other prizes, Strauss has written screenplays for Disney, Gary Oldman, and Julie Taymor. His work has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries, and he is a Clinical Professor at the NYU Creative Writing Program.