![]() ![]() “It was only when I was studying history and politics at university that some of those certainties started to slip away… Later, while doing an internship at a film company, I started to wonder if I could make a career combining my interest in real stories with creativity.” ![]() “When I was a teenager, I was very practical,” she says. She cites Arundhati Roy and the recent Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah as influences, although she didn’t always want to be a writer. ![]() Mohamed, 40, moved to London from Somalia with her family in 1986, when she was four. I thought: ‘Wow, my father’s life was interesting and wild.’ So that became the focus of my writing.” I wanted to find out who Mahmood Mattan really was but my father would say things like: ‘He was very ordinary.’ Instead, my father started telling me his own story. “They were both born in Hargeisa and both became merchant seaman. ![]()
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