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Much of Gurnah's work is set on the coast of East Africa [22] and many of his novels' protagonists were born in Zanzibar. [23] Though Gurnah has not returned to live in Tanzania since he left at 18, he has said that his homeland "always asserts himself in his imagination, even when he deliberately tries to set his stories elsewhere." [12] Pringle said Gurnah had always written about displacement, “but in the most beautiful and haunting ways of what it is that uproots people and blows them across continents”.a b King, Bruce (2004). Bate, Jonathan; Burrow, Colin (eds.). The Oxford English Literary History. Vol.13. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.336. ISBN 978-0-19-957538-1. OCLC 49564874. Gurnah's 1994 novel Paradise was shortlisted for the Booker, the Whitbread and the Writers' Guild Prizes as well as the ALOA Prize for the best Danish translation. [33] His novel By the Sea (2001) was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, [33] while Desertion (2005) was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. [33] [34] a b c d e f g Alter, Alexandra; Marshall, Alex (7 October 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021 . Retrieved 9 October 2021.

Hand, Felicity. "Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948–)". The Literary Encyclopedia (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 June 2018 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. Erskine, Elizabeth, ed. (1989). Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature for 1986. Vol.61. W. S. Maney & Son. p. 588. ISBN 0-947623-30-2. ISSN 0066-3786.Refugee Tales: Volume III – Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021 . Retrieved 7 October 2021.

Themes and Structures in Midnight's Children". In: The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie. Edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780521609951. [63] Gurnah, who was in the kitchen when he was informed of his win, said that he believed it was a wind-up. From 1980 to 1983, Gurnah lectured at Bayero University Kano in Nigeria. He then became a professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent, where he taught until his retirement [3] [12] in 2017; he is now professor emeritus of English and postcolonial literatures at the university. [13]

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