Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar. He migrated to the UK in 1967. He studied at Christ Church College, Canterbury, whose degrees were then awarded by the University of London. He lectured at the Bayero University Kano in Nigeria from 1980 to 1982 and was appointed professor at the University of Kent in 2004, where he is still based. Gurnah is the author of eight novels:
| Pilgrim’s Way, Jonathan Cape, 1988 Dottie, Jonathan Cape, 1990 Paradise, Penguin, 1994 Admiring Silence, Penguin, 1996 By the Sea, Bloomsbury, 2001 Desertion, Bloomsbury, 2005 The Last Gift, Bloomsbury, 2011 |