The prestigious literary awards, worth $150,000 each, will be given to nine deserving writers: from Nigerian novelist Helon Habila to US writer Teju Cole
“I’m getting rather overheated reading this,” said the New Yorker’s theatre critic Hilton Als apologetically, mopping his brow with a handkerchief. He was describing the adventures of the European literary theorists Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, as they lost “their collective minds” in New York’s multiracial downtown gay scene of the 1980s: a scene in which Als himself came of age.
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