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Abdulrazak Gurnah Refuses to Be Boxed In: ‘I Represent Me’

Gurnah, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, has long rejected attempts to categorize him or his work. “The idea that a writer represents, I resist,” he said. By Alex Marshall From the first time he was ever interviewed, around the publication of his debut novel in 1988, the author Abdulrazak Gurnah has been… Read More »Abdulrazak Gurnah Refuses to Be Boxed In: ‘I Represent Me’

Philologist IRENE VALLEJO: ‘Alexander the Great’s library was the first step towards the internet’

The Spanish writer on how Papyrus, her bestselling history of literature in the ancient world, changed her life at a difficult moment, and why it’s a mistake to undervalue books Born in 1979, Irene Vallejo is a Spanish writer, historian and philologist, and a regular columnist in the newspaper El País. She had written several books,… Read More »Philologist IRENE VALLEJO: ‘Alexander the Great’s library was the first step towards the internet’