Abdulrazak Gurnah is a popular Zanzibar-born Tanzanian novelist who is based in the United Kingdom.
He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and came to the UK as a refugee in the 1960s during the Zanzibar Revolution.
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948, in Zanzibar, Tanzania. After fleeing Zanzibar at age 18 to escape the persecution of Arab citizens during the Zanzibar Revolution, he arrived in England in 1968 as a refugee.
Abdulrazak Gurnah at Christ Church College, Canterbury, whose degrees were at the time awarded by the University of London. He then moved to the University of Kent, where he earned his Ph.D., with a thesis titled Criteria in the Criticism of West African Fiction.
From 1980 to 1983, Gurnah lectured at Bayero University Kano in Nigeria. He was a professor at the University of Kent’s department of English until his retirement.
Abdulrazak Gurnah Parents
Who are Abdulrazak Gurnah parents? Abdulrazak Gurnah’s parents are Africans but their names are not available to the public.
Abdulrazak Gurnah Family
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a married man with children but has kept his family away from the limelight.
Abdulrazak Gurnah Books
- Paradise- 1994
- By the Sea- 2001
- Desertion-2005
- Afterlives- 2020
- The Last Gift- 2011
- Admiring Silence-1996
- Memory of departure-1987
- Gravel Heart- 2017