I meet Sulaiman Addonia in the appropriately named Candid Cafe; behind London’s Angel station, where he wrote much of his revelatory and moving first novel. Set in the late 1990s, The Consequences of ...

In "Silence is My Mother Tongue", the latest novel by Eritrean-Ethiopian writer Sulaiman Addonia, teen Saba and her brother Hagos arrive at a refugee camp in Sudan, where she is determined to continue ...

With echoes of Zora Neale-Hurston and Clarice Lispector, Sulaiman Addonia turns from the broader immigration narrative of land and nations to look closely at the erotic and intimate lives of asylum ...

"Where is home?" the author Sulaiman Addonia says, is a question he finds overrated. Home for him is not a physical place, it’s a feeling one can discover in a lover’s eyes or even a song. Addonia’s ...

How a language barrier can both limit and liberate. By Sulaiman Addonia My mother, who can’t read and write, is one of my literary influences. I was 3 or 4 when she left our Sudanese refugee camp for ...

Love always has consequences, but for most, those consequences don’t include gruesome punishments or slow, painful death. In Sulaiman Addonia’s “The Consequences of Love,” any contact is dangerous — ...

How many times has the Romeo and Juliet story been retold? Having asked that question, I’m not certain that Eritrean writer Sulaiman Addonia had Shakespeare in mind when he wrote his evocative story ...

Addonia (The Consequences of Love) chronicles the lives of two siblings in a Sudanese refugee camp in his darkly poetic second novel. At the center is a young woman named Saba, whom the reader ...

How many times has the Romeo and Juliet story been retold? Having asked that question, I'm not certain that Eritrean writer Sulaiman Addonia had Shakespeare in mind when he wrote his evocative story ...