Abdulrazak Gurnah
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 75 |
| Born | Sultanate Of Zanzibar |
| Job | Novelist |
| Education | University of Kent |
| Canterbury Christ Church University | |
| Date of birth | December 20,1948 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Nationality | British |
| Tanzanian | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Nominations | Booker Prize |
| Notabl work | Paradise |
| By the Sea | |
| Desertion | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1891607 |
Abdulrazak Gurnah Life story
Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution.
Annie Ernaux: French writer wins Nobel Prize in Literature
... Last year s was won by Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah...
Why Tanzanian Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah is hardly known back home
...Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah became the most talked-about writer in the world when he won this year s Nobel Prize for Literature, yet he is little known in Tanzania...
Annie Ernaux: French writer wins Nobel Prize in Literature
By Helen BushbyEntertainment and arts reporter
French writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for " the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers The Roots and collective restraints of personal memory".
The Prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (£807,000).
Last Year 's was won by Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah .
The Nobel Prizes, awarded since 1901, recognise achievement in literature, science, peace and latterly economics.
Past literary winners have included novelists such as Ernest Hemingway , Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison , poets such as Louise Gluck , Pablo Neruda , Joseph Brodsky and Rabindranath Tagore , and playwrights including Harold Pinter and Eugene O'Neill.
Source of news: bbc.com
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