Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abulrazak Gurnah on Hebron Panel.

Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948 in Zanzibar) is a Tanzanian novelist based in the United Kingdom.

Career

From 1980 to 1982, Gurnah lectured at the Bayero University Kano in Nigeria. He then moved to the University of Kent, where he earned his PhD in 1982. He is now a lecturer there.

Novels

• Memory of Departure (1987)
• Pilgrims Way (1988)
• Dottie (1990)
• Paradise (1994)
• Admiring Silence (1996)
• By the Sea (2001)
• Desertion (2005)

The most famous of these are Paradise, Desertion and By the Sea, the first of which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize. By the Sea, meanwhile, was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.^[1]

Short stories

• My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa (2006)

References

• "A Note on the Author." In Desertion, by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 263. St Ives: Bloomsbury, 2006.
• Profile African People Database

Notes

1. ^ Gurnah 2006, p. 263.

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