Are both Nuruddin Farah and Rachel Carson Somali novelists?
Nuruddin Farah Nuruddin Farah (Somali: "Nuuradiin Faarax" , Arabic: نورالدين فارح‎ ‎ ) (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist. He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 26 July 1968, Hyderabad, Pakistan) is a Pakistani–Canadian writer, translator, and essayist. Farooqi was among the five writers shortlisted for Asia's most prestigious literary prize in 2012. He is the Founder/Editor of URDU THESAURUS (http://urduthesaurus.com) which is provided as a free educational resource featuring only synonyms. Planned features for versions include integrated Urdu-to-Urdu lexicons, bilingual dictionaries, and dictionaries of antonyms, idioms and proverbs.