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Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he did not pick literature as an A-level as it did not feel “useful”. The Tanzanian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2021 ...

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah in Canterbury, Kent, after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature Credit: PA Archive/PA Images Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he did not pick literature as an A-level as it did not feel “useful”. The Tanzanian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature ...

literature remains one of the last sacred spaces where we can live inside each other's minds, if only for a few pages.” The award was announced by bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max ...