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 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. […]