Literary career
Hunter's literary debut began in 2007 with the collection Stories for Boys and Other Tales, which brings together a variety of stand-alone narratives that showcase blending elements of character study, social observation, and imaginative scenarios particularly on "what it means to be a man, what it takes to be good, and what it costs to be human." [1] [2] [3]
In 2017, Hunter published his first novel Aden: History Is What Hurts, an epic end-of-empire tale set against the backdrop of the revolution in Aden, a British Crown Colony at the mouth of the Red Sea. It fictionalizes the events surrounding the 1967 insurgency and the withdrawal of British rule, blending love, loss, ambition, and betrayal as its central themes. [2] In recent years, Hunter was named as an outside contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. [4]
