How Nadifa Mohamed became the first Somali person to be short-listed for the Booker Prize with new novel, The Fortune Men

Almost two decades ago, Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed was interning for a film company in London when she came across the story of a Somali seaman named Mahmood Mattan from Cardiff’s port community of Tiger Bay.

She didn’t know at the time, the discovery would lead her to write what’s now…