Sulaiman Addonia

Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. His novel The Consequences of Love, short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, was translated into more than twenty languages. He currently lives in Brussels where he has launched a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers, along with the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile). Silence Is My Mother Tongue, his second novel, was long-listed for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. His novel The Consequences of Love, short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, was translated into more than twenty languages. He currently lives in Brussels where he has launched a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers, along with the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile). Silence Is My Mother Tongue, his second novel, was long-listed for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. See less