Postcolonial literature

Abdulrazak Gurnah during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017.

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: An introduction to the man and his writing

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The power in Gurnah’s writing lies in his ability to complicate the Manichean divisions of enemies and friends, writes Lizzy Attree, co-founder of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature.

In new memoir, Salman Rushdie tells tale of life as hunted man

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Novelist Ha Jin

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Salman Rushdie plays with video games in his new book

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Salman Rushdie talks about The Enchantress of Florence

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Great writers on great books

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On ‘To the Best of Our Knowledge’ — Toni Morrison, V.S. Naipaul, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Sherman Alexie and Orhan Pamuk.

Post-Postmodernism

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Salman Rushdie’s multi-layered novel, three types of postmodernism identified, and Stuff White People Like.

Looking for Palestine: Najla Said’s Memoir of a Confusing Arab-American Childhood

New York playwright Najla Said has struggled to find her identity in the shadow of her father, the late Edward Said. She talks with anchor Carol Hills about her new memoir, "Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family."

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Salman Rushdie

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When it came to writing his new children’s book, Luka and the Fire of Life, the novelist Salman Rushdie stuck with his attraction to moody themes. “I’ve always liked writing that slightly writes against the grain of what it’s supposed to be doing,” he tells Kurt. “So if it’s a kind of dark thing you […]

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Salman Rushdie

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The author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses claims The Wizard of Oz as his “very first literary influence.” He wrote a short book about the movie published by the British Film Institute. As Rushdie explained in a public talk, the meaning of home is especially powerful.