Paradise: A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

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Olaussen, Maria (May 2013). "The Submerged History of the Indian Ocean in Admiring Silence". English Studies in Africa. 56 (1): 65–77. doi: 10.1080/00138398.2013.780682. ISSN 0013-8398. S2CID 162203810. a b "Abdulrazak Gurnah". Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. The Stateless Person's Tale", in Refugee Tales III, edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus (Comma Press, 2019, ISBN 9781912697113) [62] For more than three decades, Abdulrazak Gurnah has been writing with a quiet and unwavering conviction about those relegated to the forgotten corners of history. Born in Zanzibar in 1948, Gurnah fled political oppression and settled in England at the age of 18. The author of numerous short stories and essays, as well as 10 novels, he has dedicated his writing career to examining the many ways that human beings can find themselves in exile: from their homes, families and communities and, perhaps most importantly, from themselves. His novels unfold in the intimate spaces created by families, companions and friendships: those spaces that are nurtured by love and duty yet rendered vulnerable by their very nature. In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, if not fully whole.

In 2006 Gurnah was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [35] In 2007 he won the RFI Témoin du Monde (Witness of the world) award in France for By the Sea. [36]

Why Gurnah’s work is powerful

Attree, Lizzy (7 October 2021). "Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: An introduction to the man and his writing". The World . Retrieved 10 October 2021. Whyte, Philip (2004). "Heritage as Nightmare: The Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah", in: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 27, no. 1:11–18.

Domini, John (8 December 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives". The Brooklyn Rail . Retrieved 15 August 2023.

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a b c d e f g Alter, Alexandra; Marshall, Alex (7 October 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021 . Retrieved 9 October 2021. Biobibliographical notes". Nobel Prize. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. Consistent themes run through Gurnah's writing, including exile, displacement, belonging, colonialism and broken promises by the state. Most of his novels tell stories about people living in the developing world, affected by war or crisis, who may not be able to tell their own stories. [20] [21] People | Abdulrazak Gurnah". Wasafiri. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019 . Retrieved 7 October 2021.My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa" (2006), in NW 14: The Anthology of New Writing, Volume 14, selected by Lavinia Greenlaw and Helon Habila, London: Granta Books [60]