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Video interview and gallery: Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah discusses new novel on 'Das Blaue Sofa' in Luxembourg

Video interview and gallery: Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah discusses new novel on 'Das Blaue Sofa' in Luxembourg

Welcome Abdulrazak Gurnah to KLF 2026🌊 Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize laureate, novelist and academic, is the author of a number of acclaimed novels, such as Paradise, Admiring Silence, By the Sea, Desertion and Afterlives. His most recent work, Theft, appeared in March 2025. His work Afterlives was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction in 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. A former Professor of English at the University of Kent, he also served as a Man Booker Prize judge in

Welcome Abdulrazak Gurnah to KLF 2026🌊 Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize laureate, novelist and academic, is the author of a number of acclaimed novels, such as Paradise, Admiring Silence, By the Sea, Desertion and Afterlives. His most recent work, Theft, appeared in March 2025. His work Afterlives was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction in 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. A former Professor of English at the University of Kent, he also served as a Man Booker Prize judge in

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Abdulrazak Gurnah | The Booker Prizes

Abdulrazak Gurnah | The Booker Prizes

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Escritor tanzaniano Abdulrazak Gurnah vence Nobel de Literatura

Listen to 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah read a segment of his novel 'By The Sea'. #NobelPrize | Nobel Prize

Listen to 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah read a segment of his novel 'By The Sea'. #NobelPrize | Nobel Prize

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Started ' The last gift ' by Abdulrazak Gurnah . @ Sculpture terrace . Chennai | Shihan Hussaini HU

Started ' The last gift ' by Abdulrazak Gurnah . @ Sculpture terrace . Chennai | Shihan Hussaini HU

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UK-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals. https://rfi.my/7oGK.t | RFI English

UK-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals. https://rfi.my/7oGK.t | RFI English

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Nobel Literature Prize Honors Tanzanian Author

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Earlier this week our former Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah received his #NobelPrize in Literature medal 🥇 Ahead of this momentous achievement, we sat down with him to discuss his life, his work and his time with us at Kent. Congratulations again Abdulrazak! | University of Kent

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"What inspires me to write is to be able to speak truthfully about what I see." Last year's literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." He speaks about what inspires him to write. What inspires you? | Nobel Prize

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“I was making a cup of tea and I thought it was a scam call.” Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah tells the BBC how he found out he was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. In his novels, Gurnah explores the themes of colonisation, migration and the immigrant experience. He is the first black African writer to win the award since Wole Soyinka in 1986. | BBC News Africa

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Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chronicler of Migrant Experience, Wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Abdulrazak Gurnah fled Zanzibar as a teenager following the Revolution of 1964. After facing prolonged poverty and alienation in England, he began to write, and the experience, motivated by the “idea of losing your place in the world” and understanding his own displacement, gave rise to his first three novels - Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, and Dottie. Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism

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Abdulrazak Gurnah receives his Nobel Literature Prize in London

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Druckfrisch: Abdulrazak Gurnah: Das verlorene Paradies | NOBELPREISE

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#Inspiration: A life that embodies resilience and insight. ✊🏾📖 Abdulrazak Gurnah fled Zanzibar as a refugee and was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. A masterful weaver of quiet stories, he explores exile, belonging, and the lingering shadows of colonialism with compassion and clarity. Part of his literary focus is on the lasting impact of German colonialism in East Africa, particularly in his novels "Paradise" and "Afterlives". Here, he explores the dark legacy of German rule in mod

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Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah Awarded Nobel Prize In Literature for ‘Uncompromising’ Novels on the Impact of Colonialism

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This afternoon join us and our new literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah as he reads us an extract from his book 'By the Sea'. Discover more of his literature: https://bit.ly/3lRZXHg | Nobel Prize

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Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Literature Prize

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Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah: 22 Essays on the 2021 Nobel Prize Winner's Works | Open Country Mag

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"I admire that resilience in the human spirit, to recover, to reconstruct, to retrieve something meaningful out of a traumatic experience." 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah's literature often focuses on the journeys and lives of refugees and people whose countries were occupied by colonialists. He met Carin Klaesson of the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden to tell us more about his literature and his own journey to the Nobel Prize. Watch the interview: | Nobel Prize

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