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'Why struggle?' - the Tanzanian-born writer who can't stop writing about his childhood home
Abdulrazak Gurnah - a Nobel laureate who moved to the UK at 18 - continues to explore the immigrant experience in his new ...
Abdulrazak Gurnah Theft
Abdulzarak Gurnah's new novel Theft is his first since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Like many of his novels, the story takes place Zanzibar, the island of his birth, and is a coming ...
Liberal public intellectual who wrote realist fiction
Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel laureate, evolved from Marxism to liberalism, critiquing socialism and exploring political themes ...
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Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Vargas Llosa Stood for Freedom Against the Nationalist Tide” Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street ...
S. Korean writer Han Kang to release first new book since Nobel Prize win
The essay collection, titled Light And Thread, will be available in bookstores starting April 24. Read more at ...