Igiaba Scego

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Photo: Simona Filippini

Author and journalist Igiaba Scego’s (b. 1974, Rome) memoir, La mia casa è dove sono, won Italy’s prestigious Mondello Prize. Her novel Beyond Babylon was released in English translation in May 2019. 

  • The cover to The Color Line by Igiaba Scego

    The Color Line by Igiaba Scego

    Igiaba Scego
    New York. Other Press. 2022. 544 pages. Igiaba Scego’s third novel, The Color Line, is a multilayered adventure. It features two women, more than a century apart, who encounter many of the same strugg…
  • A statue of Indro Montanelli, sitting and reading, with pink digitally added to cover him

    Not One Less

    Autumn 2019
    Igiaba Scego
    Pink Montanelli derivative work by Jen Rickard Blair. Original Photo: Jean-Marc Linder / Flickr An Italian-born Somali writer confronts Italy’s colonial past, beginning with an Italian j…