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How Nadifa Mohamed became the first Somali person to be short-listed for the Booker Prize with new novel, The Fortune Men
Almost two decades ago, Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed was interning for a film company in London when she came across the story of a Somali seaman named Mahmood Mattan from Cardiff's port community of Tiger Bay.
She didn’t know at the time, the discovery would lead her to write what’s now become the first novel written by a Somali person to be short-listed for the Booker Prize.
- Ahmed Yussuf
- ABC News
In 1952, Mr Mattan was the last man to be hanged in Cardiff …