Fatima Ahmed

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Fatima Ahmed
Born1949 (age 7475)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Occupation
  • Writer
  • interpreter
Children3

Fatima Ahmed (born 1949, Phnom Penh) is an Italian-Somali writer. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

Fatima Ahmed was born in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, in 1949. Her father was a Somali sailor and her mother was of Vietnamese Cham ancestry. Because of the civil war in Cambodia, the family of Fatima Ahmed sought shelter in Somalia. While they were there, Ahmed was engaged in radio programs, including being a guest speaker at Radio Mogadishu. They later on migrated to Italy. In Italy, she was mainly engaged in cultural mediation and as a Vietnamese-language interpreter.

Biography

She later became a writer and cultural mediator who actively participated in meetings, seminars, conferences and cultural activities concerning post-colonial identity. Her writing was mostly about post-colonial experiences. She has collaborated with the EKS & TRA association in literature works as well as dealing with migration. Her publications include Il Ritorno, Shanti (for which she received a medal from the Presidency of the Italian Republic) and Gocce di ricordi, which also won literary prizes. Aukuí was her first novel. She has three children with an Italian husband. They have lived in Lake Maggiore since 1989. [1] [2] [4] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Words that Build the Soul – Exchanges Literary Journal". Exchanges Literary Journal. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 Ahmed, Fatima (2008). Aukuí (in Italian). San Giovanni in Persiceto (Bologna): Eks & Tra. ISBN   9788890229084. OCLC   318632225.
  3. 1 2 Taddeo, Raffaele (27 January 2015). Letteratura nascente (in Italian). Raffaele Taddeo. ISBN   9786050352252.
  4. Marzagora, Sara (3 July 2015). "Re-writing history in the literature of the Ethiopian diaspora in Italy". African Identities. 13 (3): 211–225. doi:10.1080/14725843.2015.1074538. ISSN   1472-5843. S2CID   146741745.