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Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist and academic of Yemeni origin. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Ti…
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culture · Novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1948) · novelist · university teacher · prose writer · editing staff · writer · philologist · also Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gurnah, Abdulrazak S. Gurnah, Abdul Razzaq Gurnah, Abd al-Razzaq Journa
Born 1 January 1948 · Q317877
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2025· 5 entries
Yahoo: Abdulrazak Gurnah: searching for signs of Zanzibar’s most famous writer, all I found was trinkets and tourists
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Lleida (2025).
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The Guardian: Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – love and betrayal from the Nobel laureate
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The Guardian: Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – a masterclass in quicksilver storytelling
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2024· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2024).
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘My comfort reading is cricket reports’
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Infobae: Abdulrazak Gurnah: “It's no surprise that European countries show more sympathy for Ukrainians than Africans”
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Time: Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Urges Us Not to Forget the Past
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2021· 13 entries
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.
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The Guardian: Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah says ‘writing cannot be just about polemics’
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The Guardian: ‘I could do with more readers!’ – Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the Nobel prize for literature
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The Guardian: Abdulrazak Gurnah: where to start with the Nobel prize winner
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Smithsonian Magazine: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chronicler of Migrant Experience, Wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
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New York Post: Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
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India.com: Who Is Abdulrazak Gurnah? Know About The World’s Most Prominent Post-Colonial Writer Who Won The Nobel Prize In Literature
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New York Daily News: Nobel literature prize goes to Tanzanian author, former refugee Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Forbes: 2021 Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2021).
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As of 2021, Gurnah lives in Canterbury, Kent, England, and he has British citizenship.
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Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents"
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When publishers and booksellers struggled to meet the sudden surge in demand for his work
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2014· 1 entry
Career landmark: Participated in Étonnants voyageurs (tournament / event).
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2012· 1 entry
“The Photograph of the Prince”
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2007· 1 entry
Won the RFI Témoin du Monde (Witness of the World) award in France for By the Sea
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2006).
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“My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa”
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Gurnah was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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2001· 1 entry
“It seems to me that fiction is the bridge between these things, the bridge between this immense scholarship and that kind of popular perception. So you can read about these matters as fiction. And I hope that the reaction then is to say, ‘I didn’t know that’ and possibly for the reader, ‘I must go and read something about that.’”
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1993· 1 entry
To receive it, and the first African writer since 2007, when Doris Lessing was the recipient
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1988· 4 entries
“Miał dryg do plotkowania; plotki potrafił zarówno zdobywać, jak i puszczać w obieg, a kupiec nie łajał go za to, że zamiast siedzieć przy biurku, tyle godzin pluje na ulicach i w kawiarniach. Zawsze lepiej było wiedzieć, o czym się aktualnie mówi, niż pozostawać w niewiedzy.”
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“Askarysi z schutztruppe, wspomagani przez rekrutów spośród podbitej ludności miejscowej, stanowili już wówczas niszczycielską siłę o niemałym doświadczeniu. Szczycili się reputacją bezlitosnych wojowników, co niezwykle wręcz zadowalało oficerów i zarządców Deutsch-Ostafrika.”
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“Ból w biodrze nieco ustępował, to na pewno. Wraz z upływem dnia zdołał je nieco rozchodzić, ale wiedział, że długo się tak nie da. Wciąż potrzebował częstego odpoczynku. Ból trzeba będzie po prostu lepiej zagospodarować, inaczej całkiem Hamzą zawładnie, zamieniając go w inwalidę, jak wielu innych, którzy ocaleli z tej wojny.”
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“Którejś nocy ocknął się w całkowitym roku i zrozumiał, że tym kimś, ktoś szlochał w jego koszmarze, jest on sam. Ziemia spływała krwią, grzęzły mu stopy, całe ciało miał przesiąknięte.”
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-01-01.
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