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Sudanese-Scottish writer Leila Aboulela has won the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize. Her works delve into migration, faith, and ...

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I devoted this column to Ngugi wa Thiong’O, the late gifted Kenyan writer and critic who left our world in the United States ...