Sulaiman Addonia

Sulaiman Addonia is a British-Eritrean-Ethiopian writer. He spent his early life in refugee camps in Sudan and Saudi Arabia before arriving in London as an underage, unaccompanied refugee, speaking no English. He went on to earn degrees from SOAS and UCL, and is currently pursuing a PhD by Publication at the University of Westminster. His first novel, The Consequences of Love, was translated into over 20 languages. His second novel, Silence is My Mother Tongue, was published by Indigo Press (2019) and Graywolf (2020). His third novel, The Seers, was published by Prototype (2024) and released in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the U.S., and Canada. Addonia currently lives in Brussels, where he has launched a Creative Writing Academy for Refugees and Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile). In 2021, he was awarded Belgium’s Golden Afro Artistic Award for Literature. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Sulaiman Addonia says in interview in The Guardian "A lot of books coming out in London or the US have become all about subtlety and conformity. The western novel feels like it's in a very calm space; I told my friend, I'm gonna take it back to the rock'n'roll era! I was joking, but I feel The Seers is in conversation with a time when the western novel was really bold."

I represent Sulaiman in the Netherlands and Belgium, working in tandem with his long time international agent Jessica Craig.