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Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Urges Us Not to Forget the Past". Time. 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 15 August 2023. 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 the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. [1] 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. a b "Abdulrazak Gurnah". Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. Gurnah was born in 1948, growing up in Zanzibar. When Zanzibar went through a revolution in 1964, citizens of Arab origin were persecuted, and Gurnah was forced to flee the country when he was 18. He began to write as a 21-year-old refugee in England, choosing to write in English, although Swahili is his first language. His first novel, Memory of Departure, was published in 1987. He has until recently been professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent, until his retirement.

I thought it was a prank,” he said. “These things are usually floated for weeks beforehand, or sometimes months beforehand, about who are the runners, so it was not something that was in my mind at all. I was just thinking, I wonder who’ll get it?” Lall, Rashmee Roshan (31 October 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah: the truth-teller's tale". openDemocracy . Retrieved 31 October 2021. Refugee Tales – Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 May 2021 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. Mengiste, Maaza (8 October 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah: where to start with the Nobel prize winner". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 October 2021 . Retrieved 9 October 2021. Shariatmadari, David (11 October 2021). " 'I could do with more readers!' – Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the Nobel prize for literature". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 October 2021.a b c d e f g Alter, Alexandra; Marshall, Alex (7 October 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021 . Retrieved 9 October 2021. Prono, Luca (2005). "Abdulrazak Gurnah – Literature". British Council. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. People | Abdulrazak Gurnah". Wasafiri. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019 . Retrieved 7 October 2021.

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