Free Reading with Author Nuruddin Farah at Alphabet City

City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, located at 40 West North Avenue, is the permanent home for City of Asylum programming and the arts. It is a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation. It is a home for diverse voices from around the globe – a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh. To view a complete list of all scheduled events, visit the Alphabet City website.

Nuruddin Farah
Thursday, November 1 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm
Attend a reading and Q&A with Neustadt Prize-winner Nuruddin Farah, presented by Paul A. Bové and Boundary 2. Nuruddin Farah will be reading from his work Maps. Born in Somalia in 1945, Farah is the author of numerous novels, novellas, short stories, and plays. His novels include Hiding in Plain Sight, Crossbones, and his trilogies Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship and Blood in the Sun. After the publication of Sweet and Sour Milk in 1979, Farah became persona non grata in Somalia and served a self-imposed exile of more than twenty years, before he was permitted to visit in 1996.