Abdulrazak Gurnah

Prize: Nobel Prize in Literature — 2021
for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.

occupation: prose writer
philologist
university teacher
writer
novelist
editing staff
field of work: postcolonial literature
literary activity
editing
educated at: University of Kent
academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
end time: 1982
University of London
Christ Church
employer: University of Kent
start time: 1985
end time: 2017
Bayero University, Kano
start time: 1980
end time: 1982
position held: Booker Prize judge
member of: Royal Society of Literature
start time: 2006
notable work: Gravel Heart
By the Sea
The Last Gift
Pilgrims Way
Admiring Silence
Dottie
Memory of Departure
Paradise
Desertion

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