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Abdulrazak Gurnah
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1948
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist and academic of Yemeni origin. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
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About Abdulrazak Gurnah
Birth
1948
First book
1987
Years writing
39
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist and academic of Yemeni origin. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom as a refugee in the 1960s.
His work explores the effects of colonialism and the refugee experience with deep compassion.
He is an Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.
His acclaimed novel Paradise was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize.
In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his significant literary contributions.
