In Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty proclaims, 'When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less'. He then declares, 'The question is which is to be master — ...

The 194 member states’ union, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has launched the ...

In 2015 the novelist Ali Smith was invited to tell the story of a former detainee. Ten years on, she explains why the project is more necessary than ever ...

Theft explores the changing lives of Badar, Karim and Fauzia, three characters whose material and metaphorical destinies ...

This novel follows the quiet yet profound coming-of-age of Yusuf, a boy navigating servitude, identity and cultural loss in ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah (Lane + Co) By titling it Theft, Gurnah has elevated the range of explanations for even the novel’s minor reflections.

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Theft” is an understated yet successful portrayal of life in turn of the century Tanzania.

In 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In Theft, his first novel since he won the award, a teenage servant in Dar es Salaam is accused of stealing, but finds a way ...

Writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-born British Nobel Prize winner, recently started off a book tour in China, the latest stop of which brought him to Beijing on Monday and Tuesday.

Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel prize for literature . The Tanzanian novelist, who is based in the UK, was awarded the prize for h ...

Memory of Departure, 2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first novel, follows the journey of a Muslim man in a troubled African country who sets out in search of a new life. The journey ...

Nobel Laureate British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah gave a talk on "Writing and Its Hinterland" at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) in Dhaka on Monday. The event started with the ULAB theme ...