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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 ]
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 ...
Nobel Committee member Ellen Mattson delivering the presentation speech at Stockholm on December 10, 2021, said the following state about Gurnah: [18] "A story is told again and again in Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels. It concerns a boy who disappears or is kidnapped, sold, taken like Moses from the bulrushes, or is fleeing to save his life.
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]
The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. A varying number of fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting. 2024 On 18 July 2024, the following were elected to the fellowship; 52 fellows, 30 international fellows, and 4 honorary fellows. Fellows Professor Nava Ashraf ...
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]
In Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Debbie Jacob writes: "Pilgrim’s Way demonstrates Gurnah’s remarkable restraint in presenting his characters’ stories. He is a master of that old piece of writing advice, 'Show, don’t tell.' Gurnah shows his characters’ complex lives and feelings without telling the reader what to feel or think.
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]