1. You are the one discounting Slahi here - your argument doesn’t hold water. Have u even read the book? It was a NYT best seller, front page NYT Book review, translated into 27 languages, blurbed/praised by every intl outlet & Pulitzer winners....
https://twitter.com/rafiazakaria/status/1259152896152780800?s=20

2. & being made into a big movie. But to you, that is not “literary, notable”: it is to be discounted, all that matters is who got the prize.

The NewYorker piece serves a v different purpose & if u read the book, u would see how. Does it occur to u that Slahi had the agency in

3. the New Yorker piece, in getting this next piece of the story told, 4 yrs after his own book? The article came out in April 2019, he was *finally* granted his passport just weeks in May, after 2.5 yrs of his campaigning for his papers.