Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Booker-prize short-listed in 1994, this beautiful book set in a changing, pre-WWI East Africa deserves much wider acclaim.
Yaddo!
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Book Groups
I’ve joined the Novel Network, a innovative new venture that connects book groups with authors. On Novel Network, everything…
Essay on Ugandan Literary Activism
“Tales from Here and There: On Ugandan Literary Culture,” which appeared in the Millions, was one of my all-time…