Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British author and academic.
Born in 1948 in Zanzibar, he moved to England as a refugee in the 1960s.
Gurnah has written ten novels, including the acclaimed "Paradise," which was shortlisted for both the Booker and Whitbread Prizes.
His work often explores themes of displacement, colonialism, and the immigrant experience.
In 2021, Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." He is an Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.
