The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah ‘for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.’
Born in what was then the Sultanate of Zanzibar in 1948, Gurnah came to Britain as a refugee himself in 1968, following the revolution in his native island. Although his first language is Swahili, he has adopted English as his literary language, while incorporating throughout his work phrases and cadences from Swahili, Arabic and German.
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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' Financial Times'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the…
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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to EnglandDear Catherine, he…
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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid…
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By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural pastDottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales…
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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**'A careful and heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and pleasurable ... The work of a…
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BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2021'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who…
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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994'A poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown' Independent on Sunday'Lingering and…
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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2002'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times_______________On a late November afternoon Saleh…
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By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021Abbas has never told anyone about his past; about what happened before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a…
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