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“One day, I was this successful author, next day I was in maximum security prison,” Ngugi recalled. more-inFor so long has Ngugi wa Thiong’o been in the mix at the annual Nobel Prize conversations that many believe he has already won the prize. Midway through the session I suddenly knew what he would say:Success is the work itself, not the prizes it attracts. At an intimate, animated, worshipful gathering in Bengaluru recently, I toyed with the idea of asking him how he felt about this. The greatest writer of our generation might, like, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Joyce and Nabokov miss out..