It was a form of mourning - a way of keeping him alive,” Mohamed said. “It wasn’t until 2005 after my father passed away that I think I really wanted to reconnect with that world that he was part of. She said her father’s experiences as a traveler and adventurer inspired her first novel, “Black Mamba Boy.” When asked about the inspirations that led to her writing, Mohamed shared her interest in studying true events and turning them into fictional stories. She was selected as one of Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists” in 2013. Mohamed’s 2010 debut novel “Black Mamba Boy” was awarded the Betty Trask Prize, and her novel “The Fortune Men” was a Booker Prize finalist. Jasanoff ’96 in a conversation hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center as part of the “Writers Speak” series, which was co-sponsored by the History Seminar at the Center for European Studies.
Mohamed joined Harvard History professor Maya R. Somali novelist Nadifa Mohamed discussed her latest novel “The Fortune Men” at a Tuesday lecture in Sever Hall.
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