# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nuruddin-farah
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:35:03.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nuruddin-farah"
name: "Nuruddin Farah"
slug: "nuruddin-farah"
description: "Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as \"one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today\". Farah 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, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa."
tagline: "Somali writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/3Nuruddin_Farah.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1945-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           22.78700933333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump