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I learned to have pleasure in reading simply because I love stories.

— Abdulrazak Gurnah Nobel Lecture and Interview (2021)

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Our histories were partial, silent about many cruelties.

Nobel Lecture and Interview (2021)

Now, Britain has seen those despised people become fellow citizens and has learnt tolerance and discrimination in public dealings with them. In this respect, it is a more generous society than the one I first met 30 years ago.

Fear and loathing (2001)

I think the best moment in writing is when you think, yep, I think it’s done…Writing is best when it’s complete, when it’s finished .

Nobel Lecture and Interview (2021)

It was necessary to write of the persecutions and cruelties which the self-congratulations of our rulers sought to wipe from our memory.

Nobel Lecture and Interview (2021)

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