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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.
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]
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]
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.
Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury, 18 March) is the highly anticipated first novel since Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Set in Zanzibar in the 1990s, this coming-of-age ...
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 […]
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 .
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 ...