Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 2021for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.
- Citizenship
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Tanzania 
United Kingdom - Languages
- English, Swahili
- date of birth
- 1/1/1948, 12/20/1948
- place of birth
- Zanzibar City
- Age
- 78 years
- educated at
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- University of Kent
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- University of London
- University of Kent
- employer
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- Bayero University, Kano
- start time: 1/1/1980
- end time: 1/1/1982
- University of Kent
- Bayero University, Kano
- member of
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- Royal Society of Literature
- start time: 1/1/2006
- Royal Society of Literature
- occupation
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- university teacher
- novelist
- prose writer
- editing staff
- writer
- philologist
- notable work
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- By the Sea
- Gravel Heart
- The Last Gift
- Admiring Silence
- Pilgrims Way
- Memory of Departure
- Dottie
- Desertion
- Paradise
- position held
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- Booker Prize judge
- field of work
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- literary activity
- editing
- postcolonial literature