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Author vamba sherif talks about his latest novel bound to secrecy
Vamba Sherif (born 1973) is a Liberian-born writer residing in The Netherlands. He writes in English and Dutch. His latest novel, The Black Napoleon, is about Samori Toure who founded a great empire in the 19th century. Samori fought the English and the French to hold on to this empire. The novel will be published first in Dutch in November 2015.
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- Author vamba sherif talks about his latest novel bound to secrecy
- Vamba sherif in de tekst van mijn leven writers unlimited winternachten festival 17 01 2015
- Personal life
- References
Vamba sherif in de tekst van mijn leven writers unlimited winternachten festival 17 01 2015
Personal life
Sherif was born in Kolahun, Liberia, in 1973 and spent parts of his youth in Kuwait, where he completed his secondary school. The First Gulf War compelled him to flee Kuwait and settle first in Syria and then in The Netherlands, where he read Law. The Liberian civil war triggered the need in him to explain Liberia to himself, which resulted in his first novel about the founding of Liberia, published in Dutch under the title Het land van de vaders in 1999, and in English translation as Land of My Fathers in 2016. His second book was The Kingdom of Sebah in 2003, followed by Bound to Secrecy in 2006 and The Witness in 2011. Bound to Secrecy was chosen as one as one of the 10 best translated books in Germany in 2010 in a list that included Robert Bolano’s 2666. Sherif has written for numerous publications in The Netherlands and around the world, including The New York Times, Long Cours in France, KulturAustausch in Germany and many others. One of his earliest stories, "Faces", was published in African-writing, and his story "The Bridge of Sighs" in The Kalahari Review.
