Cristina Ali Farah Explained

Ubah Cristina Ali Farah
Birth Name:Cristina Ali Farah
Birth Date:1973
Birth Place:Verona, Italy
Occupation:novelist, essayist
Nationality:Italian
Alma Mater:La Sapienza University
Subject:immigration, colonialism, feminism
Notableworks:Madre piccola (2007)

Ubah Cristina Ali Farah (born 1973 in Verona, Italy) is an Italian writer of Somali and Italian origin.

Biography

Born in Italy to a Somali father and an Italian mother, Farah grew up in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. She attended an Italian school there until the Somalia Civil War broke out in 1991.

Farah and her family subsequently relocated to Pécs, Hungary, but then later moved back to her birthplace, Verona, Italy. There, she obtained an Italian Lettere University degree at La Sapienza University in Rome, since 2013 she resides in Brussels (Belgium).[1]

Literary career

Ubah Cristina Ali Farah is a Somali Italian poet, novelist, playwright, librettist and oral performer. She has published three novels, Madre piccola (Little mother); Il comandante del fiume (The commander of the river); and Le stazioni della luna (The stations of the moon).[2] [3] [4] In 2011, Indiana University Press published Madre piccola, translated by Giovanna Bellesia.[5] She holds a Ph.D. in African Studies and has been invited to present her work in numerous countries worldwide. She is the recipient of the Lingua Madre and Vittorini Prizes.[6] [7] She participated in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2017), in the MEET (Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs) and Art Omi Residencies (2018). She has been a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow and La Marelle Writer in residence in 2019. Recently she worked on a rewriting of the Antigone and on a libretto taken from found stories in Matera. She has just taken up an artist-in-residence fellowship at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies for the first semester 2020.

In addition to her fictional works, Farah has also published a book on the history, rise, and common themes of Somali folk theatre from 1940 to 1990.[8]

In November 2020 Meet Editions will publish a bilingual (French and Italian) collection of her short stories. She is working with Belgian artist and illustrator Goele Dewanckel on a Serigraphic book to be published next year by Else Edizioni.

She is currently a UNDP consultant  for a project on Oral Historiography for Peace Building in Somalia.

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Bibliography

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Imperfect Post Colonialism: Rapping from the Land of Punt. 2021-08-27. Villa La Pietra. en-US.
  2. Web site: 2021-08-23. Words Without Borders: Afro-Italian Women Writers. 2021-08-27. Publishing Perspectives. en-US.
  3. Book: Farah, Cristina Ali. Il comandante del fiume. 2014. 66thand2nd. 978-88-96538-95-1. it.
  4. Book: Farah, Ubah Cristina Ali. Le stazioni della luna. 2021. 66thand2nd. 978-88-3297-181-1. it.
  5. Book: Farah. Cristina Ali. Little Mother. Bellesia. Giovanna. 2011. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-22296-1. en.
  6. Book: Brioni, Simone . The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in 'Minor' Italian Literature . Routledge . 2016 . 9780367606282.
  7. Redford. Renata. 2016. Review of The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in "Minor" Italian Literature. Italica. 93. 4. 849–851. 44504625. 0021-3020.
  8. Book: Farah, Cristina Ali. Il teatro popolare somalo. 1940 - 1990. 2018-03-01. Roma TrE-Press. 978-88-94885-71-2. it.
  9. Web site: Murua . James . 2022-02-23 . Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber for Nairobi events . 2022-05-29 . James Murua's Literature Blog . en-GB . 2022-12-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221211103347/https://www.jamesmurua.com/ubah-cristina-ali-farah-khadija-abdalla-bajaber-for-nairobi-events/ . dead .
  10. Web site: Ai confini del verso. Poesia della migrazione in Italiano - M. M. Lecomte . 2022-05-29 . lelettere.it . it.
  11. Web site: Ubah Cristina Ali Farah . 2022-05-29 . Kulturvermittlung Steiermark Kunstpädagogisches Institut Graz . de-DE.
  12. Book: Bonaffini, Luigi . A New Map. The Poetry of Migrant Writers in Italy. A Bilingual Anthology.
  13. Benelli . Elena . Luigi Bonaffini and Mia Lecomte (eds) A New Map: The Poetry of Migrant Writers in Italy . Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies . 2013 . en . 47 . 3 . 691–692 . 10.1177/0014585813499507 . 193060476 . 0014-5858.
  14. Book: New Map: the Poetry of Migrant Writers in Italy . 2010-10-15 . Legas . Bonaffini . Luigi . English . Lecomte . Mia . Cipolla . Gaetano.
  15. Book: Farah, Cristina Ali . Little Mother . 2011 . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-35610-9 . en.
  16. Web site: 30 November 2001. African Library: Little Mother . 2022-05-29 . LitNet.
  17. Web site: 2015-08-07 . An Interview with Cristina (Ubax) Ali Farah, the Author of the Novels – Madre Piccola (Little Mother) and Il Comandante del Fiume (The Commander of the River) . 2022-05-29 . WardheerNews . en.
  18. Web site: Madre piccola . 2022-05-29 . Goodreads . en.
  19. Web site: 2016-06-01 . Il comandante del fiume (The River Commander), Ubah Cristina Ali Farah (66th And Second, 2014) . 2022-05-29 . Literary Hub . en-US.
  20. Web site: Amazon.com: Il comandante del fiume (Audible Audio Edition): Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Paolo Carenzo, Audible Studios: Audible Books & Originals . 2022-05-29 . www.amazon.com.
  21. Web site: 2019-04-01 . Between Us . 2022-05-29 . Nashville Review . en-US.
  22. Web site: ALI FARAH, Ubah Cristina The International Writing Program . 2022-05-29 . iwp.uiowa.edu.

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