Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and left the island in 1968, at the age of eighteen, after the revolution of 1964 and the persecutions that targeted inhabitants of Arab descent. A refugee in England, he resumed his studies there, obtained a doctorate at the University of Kent and taught English and postcolonial literatures there until his retirement. He did not see Zanzibar again until 1984. He writes in English, although his first language is Swahili, and in 2021 received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his body of work as a whole.

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• NovelParadiseAbdulrazak Gurnah · 1994Literature