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East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways - and 2023 was no exception. The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest in Gurnah's work continued last year when he made a homecoming to East Africa.
But it is in Tanzania that Gurnah made a proper homecoming in 2023 - through the first ever Kiswahili translation of 'Paradise', now out as 'Peponi'.
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