Sulaiman Addonia is a novelist who fled Eritrea as a refugee in childhood. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, and in his early teens he lived and studied in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL.The Consequences of Love was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was translated into more than 20 languages. Sulaiman Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he has launched a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers. Silence is My Mother Tongue is his second novel.

‘Silence is My Mother Tongue offers a bold and at times shocking insight into what life can be like living in a refugee camp . . . the way in which Addonia has created these characters and ties them together to create this uncertain world in which they live in makes this a compelling read’https://lovelondonloveculture.com/2018/10/06/review-silence-is-my-mother-tongue-by-sulaiman-addonia/

Sulaiman Addonia is a novelist who fled Eritrea as a refugee in childhood. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, and in his early teens he lived and studied in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL.The Consequences of Love was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was translated into more than 20 languages. Sulaiman Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he has launched a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers. Silence is My Mother Tongue is his second novel.

‘Silence is My Mother Tongue offers a bold and at times shocking insight into what life can be like living in a refugee camp . . . the way in which Addonia has created these characters and ties them together to create this uncertain world in which they live in makes this a compelling read’https://lovelondonloveculture.com/2018/10/06/review-silence-is-my-mother-tongue-by-sulaiman-addonia/

Sulaiman Addonia is a novelist who fled Eritrea as a refugee in childhood. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, and in his early teens he lived and studied in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL.The Consequences of Love was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was translated into more than 20 languages. Sulaiman Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he has launched a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers. Silence is My Mother Tongue is his second novel.

‘Silence is My Mother Tongue offers a bold and at times shocking insight into what life can be like living in a refugee camp . . . the way in which Addonia has created these characters and ties them together to create this uncertain world in which they live in makes this a compelling read’https://lovelondonloveculture.com/2018/10/06/review-silence-is-my-mother-tongue-by-sulaiman-addonia/