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Abdulrazak Gurnah

1948 - Today

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Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 710th most popular writer (down from 435th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Tanzania (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Tanzanian Writer.

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Among writers, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 710 out of 7,302. Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Georg Büchner, Multatuli, Cassiodorus, and Patrick White. After him are Clarice Lispector, Odysseas Elytis, Epicharmus of Kos, William F. Buckley Jr., John Irving, and Mihai Eminescu.

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Among people born in 1948, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 53. Before him are Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Frank Abagnale, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, John Bonham, Louis Raphaël I Sako, and István Sándorfi. After him are Rudolf Schenker, Tony Iommi, Powers Boothe, Baldwin Spencer, Grace Jones, and Giovanni Angelo Becciu.

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In Tanzania

Among people born in Tanzania, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 3 out of 39. Before him are Freddie Mercury (1946), and Samia Suluhu Hassan (1960). After him are Julius Nyerere (1922), John Magufuli (1959), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), Jakaya Kikwete (1951), Kassim Majaliwa (1961), Benjamin Mkapa (1938), Laurean Rugambwa (1912), and Cleopa Msuya (1931).

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Among WRITERS In Tanzania

Among writers born in Tanzania, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 1. After him are Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944).

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