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Nadifa Mohamed to Join Royal Holloway English Creative Writing Faculty

  • Date02 July 2018

Novelist Nadifa Mohamed will join our permanent English Creative Writing faculty this fall.

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We are excited to announce novelist Nadifa Mohamed will join our permanent English Creative Writing faculty this September. The author of two critically-acclaimed novels, Black Mamba Boy (2009) and The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013), Mohamed was named this summer as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature this week as part of the Society's '40 Under 40' initiative. She is currently working on her third novel. 

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