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Gabriel Krauze on Who They Was — his wild life in crime and literature

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Best-selling author Gabriel Krauze speaks openly about his life as a former gang criminal.(Getty Images: Peter Dazeley)

Finishing your undergraduate assignments in English Literature in breaks between selling drugs … fighting and hurting people and committing crimes while discussing the finer nuances of human morality.

Best-selling and Booker Prize nominated author Gabriel Krauze speaks openly about his life as a former gang member living on a notorious housing estate in South Kilburn in London - with quite different extra-curricular activities than  most other English literature students. Because that's his other side: A passionate student with a love for art and philosophy.

Presented at the Byron Writers Festival

Speaker

Gabriel Krauze
Author of Who They Was (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)

Antony Funnell (host)
RN presenter of Future Tense

Credits

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Books (Literature), Law, Crime and Justice
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