Abdulrazak Gurnah, author portrait
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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of ten previous novels, including Afterlives (named a 2022 Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, and The New Yorker), Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and Desertion. Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. He lives in Canterbury, England.
Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Afterlives
Desertion
By the Sea
Paradise

Books

Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Afterlives
Desertion
By the Sea
Paradise

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