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.
Austin Bukenya Austin Bukenya (born 10 February 1944) is a Ugandan poet, playwright, novelist and academic. He is the author of the novel "The People's Bachelor", and a play, "The Bride". He has taught languages, literature and drama at Makerere University in Uganda and universities in the UK, Tanzania and Kenya since the late 1960s. He has also held residences at universities in Rwanda and Germany. Bukenya is also a literary critic, novelist, poet and dramatist. An accomplished stage and screen actor, he was for several years Director of the Creative and Performing Arts Centre at Kenyatta University, Nairobi.