LONDON, Oct 10 Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian-born author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, forged a critically acclaimed 35-year career rooted in colonialism and immigration after arriving in Britain as a refugee. The novelist was born on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, off the.
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the Nobel Literature Prize for his unflinching portrayal of the effects of colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience. Gurnah, 72, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee in the late 1960s to escape the revolution, is the fifth African to win the Nobel Literature Prize. Abdulrazak Gurnah forged a critically acclaimed 35-year career rooted in colonialism and immigration after arriving in Britain as a refugee. The novelist was born on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, off the coast of east Africa, in 1948, and began writing after moving to England as a refugee, where he is now based. .
U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of crossing continents and cultures has fed his novels about the impact of migration on individuals and societies, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.