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Abdulrazak Gurnah


Zanzibar (b.1948)

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and teaches at the University of Kent.

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Memory of Departure (1987)
   Pilgrims Way (1988)
   Dottie (1990)
   Paradise (1994)
   Admiring Silence (1996)
   By the Sea (2001)
   Desertion (2005)
   The Last Gift (2011)
   Gravel Heart (2017)
   Afterlives (2020)
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Collections
   Road Stories (2012) (with others)
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Non fiction
   Map Reading (2022)
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Omnibus editions
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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1994) : Paradise


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