SALEEMA ADU SMITH

Novelist and Historian based in Berlin

Saleema is an author of adult and young adult contemporary novels (under a pen name). Each month she hosts the English Literature Book Club at Odradek Buchhandlung. She also regularly reviews books on Literary Atelier.

Novelist

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Saleema founded the public history project The Neo Historian in 2024 as a platform to encourage wider readership and engagement with history and history books beyond the world of academia.

Historian

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Saleema Adu Smith was educated at BA and MA level in European and Global History at the University of Durham, Sciences Po Aix, Université d'Aix-Marseille, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. You can read more about some of her research interests here.

She also holds an MA in Public Relations from the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She is fluent in English, Akan (Twi), French, German and conversational Japanese.

Born and raised in London, Saleema has lived in Northern England, Southern France, Tokyo, and Vienna. She now lives very happily in Berlin.

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