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From KQED. From KQED.

From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

People like to introduce novelist Abdul Razak Gurna as a writer who tackles the traumas and after effects of colonialism in East Africa. But in accepting the Nobel Prize for literature

last year, he made space for the fullness of all lives. Writing cannot just be about battling

and polemics, however invigorating and comforting that can be, he said. Writing is not about one thing, not about this issue or that, or this concern or another,

and since it's concerned as human life in one way or another,

sooner or later, cruelty and love and weakness become its subject.

We'll talk about those things, his gorgeous novel, After Lives,

which is being published in the U.S. this month, and much more.

Stay tuned for an hour with Nobel Prize winner Abdul Razakurna after this break.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Zanzibar. To my ears as a West Coast kid, almost no place rings with as much intrigue and broad distance

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