Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. Mr. Gurnah is known for his novels about the effects of colonialism and displacement in the world. 

In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism”. 

He is the first Black writer to receive the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and the first African writer since Nadine Gordimer in 1991.

His novels include Memory of Departure (1987), Pilgrims Way (1988), Dottie (1990), Paradise (1994), Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001), Desertion (2005), The Last Gift (2011), Gravel Heart (2017) and Afterlives (2020).

Short stories: Cages (1984), Bossy (1994), Escort (1996), The Photograph of the Prince (2012), My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa (2006), The Arriver’s Tale (2016), and The Stateless Person’s Tale (2019).

Mr. Gurnah will be giving a lecture at Arthur Lewis Auditorium 100, Robertson Hall on October 30th, 2024, at 4:30 p.m.

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