“In my decades of watching the Nobel prize and writing about literature, this is the biggest surprise - the most jaw-dropping announcement so far. No one just appears on this list automatically, you have to be there for a while. So I don't believe that recent developments in the world, or world politics, or the refugee crisis has affected this choice - but I think that probably the need to watch post-colonial literature more closely, and to pay attention to this literature [means] the importance and the acuteness of this literature has been emphasised in recent years.”
07 Oct 2021
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