Do You Know the Classic Works That Inspired These Popular Family Movies?
“Watership Down,” the 1972 novel by Richard Adams that was first adapted as a 1978 animated film and then as a 2018 Netflix ...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history
The history of Zanzibar is prevalent in the work of Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, including his new release, ‘Theft’, ...
Nobel novelist: ‘Sunak and Patel, whose parents migrated, are now the most virulent migrant-haters’
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first novel since winning the biggest prize in literature revisits an injustice from his Tanzanian ...
Fiction: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s ‘Theft’
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Irish writers on Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Young Writer of the Year Award; Eoin McNamee and fallow journal launches; AE ...
Abdulrazak Gurnah's 6 favorite books about war and colonialism
This is Nuruddin Farah’s most powerful novel. As with all of his fiction, it is set in his homeland of Somalia. Maps is an ...
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'Everyday, ordinary' things drive Nobel Prize-winning author's new novel 'Theft'
Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more ...
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Nobel Prize-winning author takes on 'everyday, ordinary' things in new novel
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss ...
Eight new books, including a Nobel Prize winner, YA romantasy and a year in Seoul
The first novel from Abdulrazak Gurnah since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, the seeds of Theft are sown in ...
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New books this week: 'Hunger Games' is back, and young people navigate a new Tanzania
This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 ...
Revolution Freed Their Country, and Upended Their Lives
In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s ...
African book fair in Paris celebrates diversity of diaspora voices
The fourth edition of the African Book Fair is under way in Paris, with Diaspora Travels as its theme. Cameroon and Brazil are the guests of honour during ...