Abdulrazak Gurnah

b. 1948

2 standalone books

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born on 20 December 1948 in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His literary works include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize, Desertion (2005), and By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." He is an Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.

Born

1948