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Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah unknown at home

2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah during the 40th International Book Fair at the Sharja, United Arab Emirates on November 4, 2021. [Caroline Chebet, Standard]

Jamaican poet Claude McKay in one of his famous poems, I Shall Return, once described the longing of going back to the village to loiter by the streams and bathe the brown blades of pending grasses.

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