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Abdulrazak Gurnah was born on 20 December 1948 [5] in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. [6] He left the island, which later became part of Tanzania, at the age of 18 following the overthrow of the ruling Arab elite in the Zanzibar Revolution, [3] [1] arriving in England in 1968 as a refugee.
By the Sea is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was first published in the United States by The New Press on 11 June 2001 [1] and in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing in May 2001. [2] It is Gurnah's sixth novel. [3] By the Sea was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. [4]
Paradise is a historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanzibar-born British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1994 by Hamish Hamilton in London. The novel was nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction. [1] [2]
Desertion is one of Gurnah's most acclaimed novels.Mike Phillips, reviewing it for The Guardian, wrote: . Most of Desertion is as beautifully written and pleasurable as anything I've read recently, a sweetly nostalgic recall of a colonial childhood and a vanished Muslim culture, defined by its thoughtful and customary manners, layered by its calendar of festivals and religious observances.
Abdulrazak Gurnah has been named the 2021 recipient of one of the world’s most prestigious awards: the Nobel Prize in literature. The Tanzanian novelist is […]
Afterlives is a 2020 work of historical fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanjibar-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah.It was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 17 September 2020. [1]
Memory of Departure is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1987 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom. [1] It is Gurnah's first novel. It follows a Muslim man in an unnamed African country who seeks to be educated abroad. [2] In a review for The New York Times, Richard E. Nicholls praised the novel as "fierce" and "vivid". [2]
Gravel Heart is a 2017 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah.It is Gurnah's ninth novel and was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 1 August 2017. [1] [2] The story is set in the late 20th century and follows Salim, who moves from Zanzibar to the United Kingdom, as he reflects on his parents' separation. [3]