Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to...
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historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanzibar-born British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1994 by Hamish Hamilton in London. The novel was...
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in Literature was awarded to the Tanzanian-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948) who the Swedish Academy members praised "for his uncompromising...
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By the Sea (novel) (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
By the Sea is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was first published in the United States by The New Press on 11 June 2001 and in the United Kingdom by...
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Desertion (novel) (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
Desertion is a 2005 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing. There is, as you can see, an I in this...
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Afterlives (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
historical fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanjibar-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 17 September 2020...
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Admiring Silence (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
Admiring Silence is a 1996 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It is Gurnah's fifth novel and was first published by The New Press on 1 November 1996. The plot...
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Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979. The most recent black laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. Among the black...
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Robert Edric Tan Twan Eng J. G. Farrell Karen Joy Fowler Linda Grant Abdulrazak Gurnah Sarah Hall Mohsin Hamid Shirley Hazzard Philip Hensher Mary Lawson...
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Gravel Heart (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
Gravel Heart is a 2017 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It is Gurnah's ninth novel and was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 1 August 2017. The story...
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Theiler in 1951 for Physiology or Medicine. The most recent recipient, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. A notable recipient...
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after 2008 laureate Doris Lessing. He was succeeded later by novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who became a Nobel laureate in 2021. Memory, time and lifelong deception...
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The Last Gift (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
The Last Gift is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It is Gurnah's eighth novel and was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011. The plot centres...
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Pilgrims Way (novel) (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
Pilgrims Way is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom. It is Gurnah's second novel. The protagonist...
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"Abdulrazak Gurnah – Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2017. "Abdulrazak Gurnah"...
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Robert, Muhammed Said Abdulla, Aniceti Kitereza, Ebrahim Hussein, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Penina Muhando. One of the most prominent Swahili writers in Tanzania...
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Memory of Departure (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
of Departure is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1987 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom. It is Gurnah's first novel. It follows a...
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Livingstone, Scottish explorer and missionary Tippu Tip, slave trader Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel prize laurates in literature. The Old Dispensary Shangani Post...
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two philosophical essays reconsidering many of Melville's ideas. Abdulrazak Gurnah references "Bartleby, the Scrivener" throughout his 2001 novel By...
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Ruhumbika, Ebrahim Hussein, May Materru Balisidya, Fadhy Mtanga, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Penina O. Mlama.: pages 76–8 Two Tanzanian art styles have achieved...
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Dottie (novel) (category Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah)
Dottie is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah published by Jonathan Cape in 1990. It is Gurnah's third novel. Unlike most of Gurnah's protagonists, the eponymous...
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(South Africa) in 2003, Doris Lessing (UK/Zimbabwe) in 2007, and Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania) in 2021. In 1991, Ben Okri's novel The Famished Road won...
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horror' through the literary world". Nobel laureates Kazuo Ishiguro and Abdulrazak Gurnah were among the first to issue statements defending Rushdie, while...
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grounds for an at-fault divorce Desertion (novel), a 2005 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah Mate desertion, a parent abandoning their offspring Spiritual desertion...
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Hungary in Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Croatia), Chemistry, 1939 Abdulrazak Gurnah*, Literature, 2021 V. S. Naipaul*, Literature, 2001 Moungi Bawendi**...
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Kamila Shamsie, William Dalrymple as well as Nobel prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux and Olga Tokarczuk, criticized the Frankfurt Book Fair...
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Ben Okri and Ali Smith. Her 2023 novel River Spirit was praised by Abdulrazak Gurnah for its "extraordinary sympathy and insight". Born in 1964 in Cairo...
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American film by Angelina Jolie By the Sea (novel), a 2001 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah By the Sea (painting), a 1909 painting by Piet Mondrian By-the-Sea...
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Bouchamaoui, Professor of Practice of Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution Abdulrazak Gurnah, Arts Professor of Literature Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy...
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literary critics, such as in works edited by 2021 Nobel prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. Several themes emerge. Mainly, his characters are the Asians of East...
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