Watch Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen in a spirited conversation with The Nation about colonialism and literature. Date Apr 21, 2021 Time 9:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM ET Location Join one of ...

We speak with Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, which recognized his “uncompromising and compassionate” writing about colonialism and the refugee ...

With Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s historic International Booker win for Taiwan Travelogue, a first for a Mandarin novel, global readers are beginning to discover Taiwan’s rich literary culture and the everyday li ...

Ngũgĩ was often considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was recognized globally, including being shortlisted for the ...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the ...

Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won this year's Nobel Prize in literature. "For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in ...

There is a growing body of literature — novels, memoirs, poetry, graphic novels, picture books — through which Indigenous writers are giving voice and agency to the experiences and histories of Indian ...

“We alone can use properly our own resources; and no work in art or literature ever has been, or ever will be, of any real or lasting value which is not true, original, and independent.” Nothing is ...

As independence from British colonial rule swept across East Africa in the early 1960s and freedom was won in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, parents and teachers worried about what their children were ...

Every April 27 in the last five years, to mark my birth, I host a children’s literacy event with children from different backgrounds. This year was no different, but I combined it with the launch of ...

Much of the journal’s editorial board resigns, saying that a controversial article arguing in favor of colonialism failed to pass peer review but was published anyway -- and that the journal’s editor ...