SALEEMA ADU SMITH

Saleema is a writer of young adult novels under a pen name.

Outside of writing she hosts the English Literature Book Club at Odradek Buchhandlung and the Romantic & Ruinous Book Club at Chapters Berlin, as well as the English Romance Book Club at The Naughty Chapter.

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 (Hons) level in European History at the University of Durham (UK) and Sciences Po Aix, Université d'Aix-Marseille (France). She then studied Global History on the MA programme at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). 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 (UK). She is fluent in English, Akan (Twi), French, German and has conversational Japanese.

After an international career in publishing, public relations and event production spanning Tokyo, Vienna, London, Paris and Berlin she turned her focus to her passion for history and literature. She now works as a novelist of contemporary and historical fiction for young adults (under a pen name) as well as hosting literary events in person and online.

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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