is Anglophone Somali writer Nuruddin Farah’s first novel and the first Somali novel in any language. The novel was written in a month and a half in 1968 when Farah was a student at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. In the essay “Ibsen, in other words” Farah describes the context of the novel’s composition. Bewildered at the range of literature in the university library, Farah was encouraged to read Henrik Ibsen’s
A Doll’s Houseby a female classmate (Farah 2015: 15). Amazed at the power and provocation of the play, Farah acknowledges Ibsen’s major influence on
From a Crooked Rib, with strong resemblances between Ebla, his own protagonist, and Nora, Ibsen’s heroine. The novel was published in 1970 in the iconic Heinemann African Writers Series,…
2197 words
Citation: Moolla, F. Fiona. "From a Crooked Rib". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 December 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30482, accessed 23 November 2024.]
