Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah left his homeland—the island of Zanzibar—during the revolution and upheaval that followed the end of colonial rule on the island. For nearly forty years, his novels ...
In Afterlives (Riverhead, Aug.), Nobel laureate Gurnah portrays ordinary Africans against the backdrop of European colonialism and war. Your work generally features refugees or people living in exile ...
In Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives, the characters centered in the novel offer different perspectives of ordinary people under German colonization in East Africa. In an interview with NPR's Scott Simon ...
When Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature last October, becoming the first Black writer to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993, his books shot to the top ...
Zanzibar's writer publishes his first novel after receiving the Nobel Prize four years ago, 'A Long Way' (Salamandra), and is awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lleida. When Abdulrazak ...
On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we feature Abdulrazak Gurnah from a Portland Arts & Lectures event in September 2022. He joined us as part of the American launch of his most ...
In an interview after receiving the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah said that, while he writes about “little people” rather than the famous or the outsize, “I think there is also ...
STOCKHOLM — Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy said Thursday the award was in recognition of his “uncompromising and compassionate ...
Scott Simon talks with Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah about his latest novel, "Afterlives," which follows several generations of East Africans in the wake of colonization. A new novel ...
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