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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]
May 10, 2024 · Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzanian-born British author known for his novels about the effects of colonialism, the refugee experience, and displacement in the world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021.
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born novelist who writes about the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of these themes.
Oct 7, 2021 · Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Tanzanian writer, the first Black winner since Toni Morrison, was honored for his “uncompromising and compassionate...
Sep 8, 2023 · Abdulrazak Gurnah was so surprised to win the Nobel Prize in Literature two years ago that, when the Swedish academy called him at his Canterbury home — where he was making a...
Oct 7, 2021 · Abdulrazak Gurnah has won this year's Nobel Prize in literature. Gurnah has written 10 novels, including Paradise, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Read and watch the interviews with the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, who talks about his passion for reading and writing, his inspiration, his views on diversity and refugees, and his reaction to the prize.
