Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan, and in his early teens he lived 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. Addonia currently lives in Brussels, where he founded a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile (AALFIE). In 2021 he was awarded Belgium's Golden Afro Artistic Award for Literature.

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