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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Gurnah in January 2023 Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. 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 Times'' Book Prize; and ''Desertion'' (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Gurnah was awarded the 2021 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". He is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Memory of departure

    Memory of departure by Gurnah, Abdulrazak 1948-

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