Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia (Tigrinya: ሱላእማን ኣድዶንኣ) is an author residing in London. He was born as the son of an Eritrean mother and an Ethiopian father in Eritrea. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan, following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976. In his early teens, he lived and studied in Saudi Arabia.[1] He sought the asylum with his brother in London in 1990, and studied at the University College London.[2]
Sulaiman’s first novel called The Consequences of Love, (published by Chatto & Windus in 2008) is a love story set in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Naser, a 20 year old refugee from Eritrea, falls in love when a veiled woman, who drops a note at his feet. She identifies herself by a pair of pink shoes, and the two embark on an epistolary romance, hoping to meet face to face. They live in fear that the religious police may learn of their illegal romance.