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Abdulrazak Gurnah

20 December 1948 -

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. His novels 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 Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. source

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  • Cover of: The last gift: a novel

    First published in 2011 8 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition lastgift0000gurn_n2j4 Cover of edition lastgift0000gurn Cover of edition lastgift0000gurn_f2i6
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  • Cover of: The Cambridge companion to Salman Rushdie

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  • Cover of: Desertion

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  • Cover of: Paradise

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  • Cover of: Memory of departure

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  • Cover of: Admiring Silence

    First published in 1996 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: By the sea

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  • Cover of: Pilgrims way

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  • Cover of: Essays on African writing

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  • Cover of: The Heinemann book of contemporary African short stories

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  • Cover of: A la vora de la mar

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  • Cover of: Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

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  • Cover of: La vida, després. Premi Nobel de literatura 2021

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Subjects
Fiction, Fiction, general, Africa, fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), General, English literature, African literature, Colonies, England, fiction, Refugees, Roman, Short stories, African (English), Social conditions, Social life and customs, Tanzanians, African Short stories, African literature, translations into english, Africanists, Anthologies, Asianists, Black Families, Blacks, Boys, British, Cerebrovascular disease
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England, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Africa, London, Kenya, London (England), Mombasa (Kenya)
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Salman Rushdie

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January 27, 2023 Edited by Drini merge authors
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