Abdulrazak Gurnah

Paradise

Arab trader's journey from slavery to merchant across East Africa

About the author

Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Tanzanian-British novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism. His novels explore migration, displacement, and identity across the East African coast. He spent most of his career in relative obscurity before the Nobel transformed his readership.

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