He also has the distinction of being the first Somali novelist to write in the nascent Latin script for the Somali language after its formalization in 1972.
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Reportedly because of his membership in the Darod clan family, Awl, along with three of his children, was killed in 1991, at the height of the civil unrest that gripped the town of Beledweyne in the Hiiraan region.
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