![]() ![]() ![]() Osman's first book Fairytales For Lost Children, released in 2013, is a collection of short stories that explore identity, sexuality, immigration, diaspora, family, mental health and trauma, all of which successfully wander through the universality that is the Somali experience. ![]() The first African to win a Polari First Book Prize (2014), Osman has a knack for creatively exploring an assortment of multifaceted themes through a number of literary fashions - and brilliantly at that. He has written imaginatively about his experience as a young, gay African with a particular focus on the minutiae. Diriye Osman was born in Somalia during civil war and later relocated to Nairobi. ![]()
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