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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes,…
— E. L. James
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Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…
— Susan Hill
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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,…
— Johannes V. Jensen
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My literary success meant nothing to me
— Taylor Caldwell
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place…
— Harold Brodkey
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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
— George Orwell
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
— Martin Amis
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
— Jonathan Coe
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
— Rick Moody
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The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
— Scott Turow
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
— Robert Harris
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