Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021, the first Black
African in 35 years. Published in 44 languages, he is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Admiring Silence, By the Sea, Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), The Last Gift, Gravel Heart and Afterlives. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Booker Prize judge in 2016.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
