From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization

Gurnah’s novels recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world. —Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee […]

Zanzibar Born Abdulrazak Gurnah Nobel Prize Ready to Work with Zanzibar on International Book Fair

The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah(with casual black suit) back to Motherland Country and arrives at the Abeid Amani Karume International Airport and accompanied by Minister of Tourism and Antiques, honorable Simai Muhammed(with white shirt). On December 7th, when Abdulrazak Gurnah accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature at the Swedish Embassy in […]

Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in literature

  ZANZIBAR-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writings on post-colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960,is the fifth African to win the Nobel Literature Prize. […]