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My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the…
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From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as…
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My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
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To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce…
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I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the…
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In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
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Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective…
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The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
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Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
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I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,…
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Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most…
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Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre…
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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of…
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade…
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Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
— Paul Theroux
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they…
— Leslie Cockburn
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce…
— Giles Foden
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I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way…
— Henning Mankell
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