The Nobels: Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Man and his Writing
Abdulrazak Gurnah is one of the most important contemporary postcolonial novelists writing in Britain today and the first Tanzanian to win.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah is one of the most important contemporary postcolonial novelists writing in Britain today and the first Tanzanian to win.
The last black African writer to win the prize was Wole Soyinka in 1986. Abdulrazak Gurnah is the first black writer to win since Toni Morrison in 1993.
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The power in Gurnah’s writing lies in his ability to complicate the Manichean divisions of enemies and friends.
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