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Zanzibar-born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for literature, smiles ahead of a press conference in London, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. 

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘Colonialism and its consequences are still with us’

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Nobel novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah joined The World’s host Marco Werman to talk about what motivates him to continue to explore the ongoing consequences of colonialism in his literary works — and the power of literature to help us understand the plight of the other. 

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