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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ]
The most recent recipient, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. A notable recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) the first democratically elected president of South Africa, who played a key role in the repeal of apartheid laws.
By the Sea. Admiring Silence is a 1996 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It is Gurnah's fifth novel and was first published by The New Press on 1 November 1996. [ 1][ 2] The plot follows an unnamed Zanzibari man living in England, after fleeing there in the early 1960s. [ 3] In England he becomes a teacher and raises a daughter with his white English ...
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.
The African Writers Series includes five winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka (1986), Naguib Mahfouz (1988), Nadine Gordimer (1991), Doris Lessing (2007), and Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021). Books in the series have also won the Commonwealth Prize, the NOMA Award for African Writing, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and ...