# Yasmine Allas (Yaasmiin Callas)

> Yasmine Allas (born 1967): Mogadishu-born Dutch actress and novelist, author of Idil, een meisje.

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## Who is she?

Yasmine Allas is a Somali-Dutch actress and writer, born in Mogadishu in 1967 ([Wikipedia, Yasmine Allas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmine_Allas)). Her father was a general in the Somali army and was killed in 1977 (same source). She attended a private school in Mogadishu, where she learned Italian and English (same source).

At fourteen she joined her mother's relatives in Saudi Arabia, then moved to [Belgium](/en/diaspora/belgium/) and, in 1987, to the Netherlands (same source). She speaks Somali, Italian, English and Dutch (same source). See [Somalis in the Netherlands](/en/diaspora/netherlands/).

## Acting

She trained at drama school in Amsterdam and began acting in the late 1980s with the theatre group The Trust ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmine_Allas)). In 1995 she played Gretchen in that company's production of *Faust* by Gustav Ernst (same source). She also worked for several years with the director Theu Boermans and had her own solo show (same source).

## Writing

Her books, all in Dutch, are ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmine_Allas)):

- *Idil, een meisje* (Idil, a girl), 1998
- *De generaal met de zes vingers* (The general with six fingers), 2001
- *De blauwe kamer* (The blue room), 2004
- *Ontheemd en toch thuis* (Uprooted but still home), essays, 2006
- *Een nagelaten verhaal* (A handed-down history), 2010, inspired by her 2006 return to Somalia

In 2006 she went back to Hargeisa for a television documentary about her youth (same source). She has written for the newspaper *de Volkskrant* (same source). The Dutch Foundation for Literature keeps an author page on her ([Letterenfonds](http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/424/yasmine-allas)).

## In short

A Mogadishu-born actress and novelist who has written five books in Dutch since 1998.

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