Linda Mohamed Joins Faber as Fiction Editor

Linda Mohamed joins Faber as commissioning editor of fiction, bringing her experience in discovering new voices and supporting authors. She aims to enhance Faber's commitment to publishing outstanding fiction.

Joyner added: “Welcoming Linda to Faber gives wonderful pleasure and enjoyment to all of us. A vibrant and bold editor, her dedication to her authors and their job has long satisfied us. Her energy, rigour and overall publishing interest will certainly include fresh power to our elite appointing team, and bring vital and bold new voices to a remarkable fiction listing.”

Linda Mohamed’s Enthusiasm

“I could not be extra delighted and honoured to be signing up with Faber as commissioning editor of fiction,” Mohamed claimed. “I am thrilled to join an author that is increasingly independent and that flaunts such an unbelievable heritage. I have long admired Faber’s commitment to releasing the greatest fiction in English and translation with publications that test, energise and reframe the literary landscape, and I can not wait to work alongside their hugely excellent group.”

She aided form the literary end of the listing, releasing new voices in English and translation, consisting of Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize-shortlisted Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly. She was additionally the editor of the two newest winners of the #Merky Books’ New Writers’ Reward.

Faber Welcomes New Editor

Alex Bowler, Faber’s publisher, said: “We’re honored to be the publisher of such a superior listing of literary fiction and honored to have a team of such large experience and comprehensive literary taste– and now Linda, I’m convinced, will certainly light a new fuse for us.”