Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah (b. 1948) — Tanzania / United Kingdom, writing in English. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021.
“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents” — The Nobel Committee citation
About Abdulrazak Gurnah
Zanzibar-born novelist who arrived in Britain as a young refugee and later taught postcolonial literature. His fiction follows people driven across borders with memories, names and historical debts carried between East Africa, the Arab world and Europe.