Abdulrazak Gurnah
Tanzanian-born British novelist, short‑story writer and academic (born 1948), known for novels about colonialism, exile and displacement; awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Books
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1. Sobrevidas
A multi‑perspective, multigenerational novel set along the East African coast and beyond that follows ordinary people whose lives are ruptured by colonial rule, wartime conscription and displacement; through intimate scenes and historical episodes it traces how dispossession, migration, broken promises and painful memories shape identities, relationships and the struggle to survive in the tangled aftermath of empire.