Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in 1948 in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, is a writer and literary scholar. He was Professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent. In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known novels include *Paradise* (1994), *By the Sea* (2001), *Desertion* (2006) and *Afterlives* (2020). *Paradise* and *By the Sea* were nominated for the Booker Prize, while *Desertion* was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.