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Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. [ 1 ] His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the ...
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] Set mainly in the first half of the 20th century, the plot follows four protagonists living in an unnamed town on the Swahili coast of what is now ...
ISBN. 9780747573999. Preceded by. Dottie. Followed by. Admiring Silence. 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]
The latest novel by the Tanzanian author, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, offers an intimate look at village life in East Africa during the period of German colonialism in the early ...
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.
Gurnah said it was ‘important’ for the Swedish Academy to highlight the themes mentioned in his work. Abdulrazak Gurnah ‘surprised and humbled’ by Nobel Prize for literature Skip to main ...
Admiring Silence. Followed by. Desertion. 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 ...
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Tanzanian-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948) who the Swedish Academy members praised "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." [ 1 ]