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4 weeks ago | 
lrb.co.uk | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Blake Morrison
The theft in Theft isn’t a theft at all. Badar, working as a servant boy in a house in Dar es Salaam in the 1990s, is accused of adding groceries to the household’s weekly bill and selling them to accomplices. Nothing about Badar suggests he’d be capable of such a crime, and Haji and Raya, his affable master and mistress (terms they reject: ‘What is this Bwana business? Call me Haji’), think the grocer must be cheating them.
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1 month ago | 
lesen.de | Abdulrazak Gurnah |George Saunders |Laurie Penny |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times'Gurnah is a master storyteller' Financial Times_______________On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense.
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1 month ago | 
waterstones.com | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Natasha Brown |Ben Okri |Abdulrazak Gurnah
Posted on 26th February 2025 by Mark Skinner Get ready for a marvellous March, as we unveil the exciting new titles published this month.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
waterstones.com | Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Olga Tokarczuk |Herta Müller |Tomas Tranströmer
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Abdulrazak Gurnah
A continuous humanness This is an edited transcript of Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Dr Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nelson Mandela Foundation Lecture, under the theme ‘Realising Our Shared Humanity’ 29 September 2024 - 00:00 By Abdulrazak Gurnah It is an honour to address you in a forum such as this, which seeks to memorialise and celebrate the achievements and the courage of a great man. His overwhelming achievement is, of course, to lead the struggle of his country to freedom.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
thechrysalisbrewproject.com | Wole Soyinka |Derek Walcott |Toni Morrison |Abdulrazak Gurnah
“Black Literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”– Toni MorrisonAs Toni Morrison rightly said, Black Literature has not always been viewed purely from the lens of art. More often than not, the works of Black authors have been judged from a sociological perspective. Like almost everything in life, it took decades for Black authors to prove their talent and show the world that their works have great artistic and creative value.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
refugeeweek.org.uk | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Dina Nayeri
Stories are a way of making sense of the world and our place in it. They help us connect with other people and ourselves. By reading and listening to stories about refugee experiences, we can deepen our understanding of the impact of forced migration and displacement. This Refugee Week, we encourage you to pick a book or listen to a podcast that platforms the stories and perspectives of refugees and asylum seekers.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Suzie Keen |Penelope Debelle |Stephen Vagg
June is set to be a month of holding up the mirror to reality, with The Conversation’s experts recommending three new non-fiction watches. No streaming list is complete without some true crime, so there’s the long-awaited second season of The Jinx (which comes nearly a decade after the first). We also look at Netflix’s scandalous Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal, a three-part docuseries that dissects the infamous site designed for people seeking affairs.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Suzie Keen |Penelope Debelle |Stephen Vagg
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