Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of 'Afterlives' - 2021 Nobel Prize winner discusses distractions, why reading is as important as writing, and needing blank walls
Writer's Routine
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The Pressure of the Nobel Prize
I've never ever spoken to a Nobel Prize winner before. When I got the phone call, I thought it was a prank. That's amazing. Is this something that builds you up to set such an extent? How much pressure do you think that might bring to the way you tell stories in the future? Well, I don't know yet, do I? Because most of the time, now I'm not doing it, writing it all, I'm talking to you. And so that means that, you know, probably would love to speak to our good journalists and to readers and so on.
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