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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Zanzibar (b.1948)

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and teaches at the University of Kent.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Memory of Departure (1987)
   Pilgrims Way (1988)
   Dottie (1990)
   Paradise (1994)
   Admiring Silence (1996)
   By the Sea (2001)
   Desertion (2005)
   The Last Gift (2011)
   Gravel Heart (2017)
   Afterlives (2020)

Collections

Road Stories (2012) (with others)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Abdulrazak Gurnah recommends

Beyond the Door of No Return (2023)
David Diop
"I read Beyond the Door of No Return with pleasure and admiration. David Diop has opened up a new way of thinking about the eighteenth century and its hideous cruelties."

River Spirit (2023)
Leila Aboulela
"A novel of extraordinary sympathy and insight...a wonderful achievement.'"

Books containing stories by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011)
edited by
Helon Habila

Awards

2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

Award nominations

	2021 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (nominee) : Afterlives
	2001 Booker Prize (longlist) : By the Sea
	1994 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Paradise

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