Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature Laya SoleymanzadehPhD, English Literature, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel laureate of 2021, was born in Zanzibar, on aRead More…
Saleh Omar, a Zanzibari refugee living in an unnamed British village ‘by the sea’, is the unreliable narrator of this section whose dealings with a Persian trader years ago in Zanzibar have led to an enmity with Latif Mahmud, now a respected poet and lecturer at the University of London. […]
Born in Zanzibar, Tanzania in 1948, Abdulrazak Gurnah is a novelist and academic. He moved to the UK in 1968, in part to escape violence against Zanzibari Arabs…
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