Kenyan essayist and political analyst, Nanjala Nyabola; British-Nigerian poet and playwright, Inua Ellams; Catalan and Swiss poet, writer and translator, Pol Vouillamoz; and Natasha Brown; named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in and the Chair of the International Booker Prize 2026 judges, discuss identity, Otherness and unpack how they employ language as a precise emotional instrument.
