# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nadifa-mohamed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:18:29.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nadifa-mohamed"
name: "Nadifa Mohamed"
slug: "nadifa-mohamed"
description: "Nadifa Mohamed is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine's list \"Best of Young British Novelists\" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Her 2021 novel, The Fortune Men, was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, making her the first British Somali novelist to get this honour. She has also written short stories, essays, memoirs and articles in outlets including The Guardian, and contributed poetry to the anthology New Daughters of Africa. Mohamed was also a lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London until 2021. She became Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University in Spring 2022."
tagline: "Somali-British novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nadifa_Mohamed.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1981"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.25
  momentum:             0.1875
  historical:           14.426028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Nadifa Mohamed"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nadifa Mohamed"
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    title: "Nadifa Mohamed"
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    title: "Надіфа Мохамед"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump