Abdulrazak Gurnah

ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

 

Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL 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

Born: 20 December 1948 (age 73 years), Sultanate of Zanzibar

Nationality: Tanzanian

Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature (2021)

Education: Canterbury Christ Church University, University of Kent

Nominations: Booker Prize

Notable works: Paradise (1994); By the Sea (2001)

 

For Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrazak_Gurnah

 

For a New York Times article with an interview with Gurnah please click https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/books/abdulrazak-gurnah-nobel-book.html