The Maid by Nadifa Mohamed

Tank Magazine Podcast

In this episode of the Tank Magazine podcast, Nadifa Mohamed reads her flash fiction piece, The Maid. Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somalia in 1981 and studied History and Politics at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, was published in 2009. It won the Betty Trask Prize, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award. In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and in 2014 as one of Africa 39's Best of Young African Novelists. Her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, was published in 2013 and won a Somerset Maugham Prize and the Prix Albert Bernard, and was long-listed for The Dylan Thomas Prize and short-listed for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She writes regularly for The Guardian, The New York Times, Lithub, Granta, and Tank Magazine. The printed version of this piece is published in the Tank Future Perfect Issue. ?