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Nobelist Maria Ressa, the Filipino and American founder of digital news site Rappler, sounded the alarm on tech’s existential threats to journalism and our human rights.

“You can understand other Nobelists, they are available to you in the United States,” he continued in the New York interview, before rattling off the names of prizewinning writers from Poland, Saint Lucia and Russia.

Throughout the rest of his life, he found it hard to tell people that he was a Nobelist.

Against this background, the Irish novelist Colm Tóibín has managed to write “The Magician,” an incisive and witty novel that shows what good company the Nobelist and his family might have been.

As the first Black African Nobelist, you’ve also had an enormous impact on contemporary African writing.