An introduction to the Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah and his writing
Abdulrazak Gurnah attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 17, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His novel deploys multiculturalism on the shores of the Indian Ocean from the perspective of the Swahili elite.The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021.
Comparable to Moyez G. Vassanji, a Canadian author raised in Tanzania, whose attention focuses on the east African Indian community and their interaction with the “others”, Gurnah’s novel Paradise deploys multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism on the shores of the Indian Ocean from the perspective of the Swahili elite.
Copies of"Afterlives" by Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah are displayed at Waterstones bookshop in central London on 7 October 2021.He was awarded the Nobel His most recent novel, Afterlives, is about Ilyas, who was taken from his parents by German colonial troops as a boy and returns to his village after years of fighting against his own people. The power in Gurnah’s writing lies in this ability to complicate the Manichean divisions of enemies and friends, and excavate hidden histories, revealing the shifting nature of identity and experience.
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