Abdulrazak Gurnah is a famous Tanzanian novelist who writes in English and is based in the United Kingdom.
Abdulrazak Gurnah has won multiple awards, Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) in 2006, Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) in 2001, and Booker Prize for Fiction in 1994.
He writes fiction, non-fiction, and short stories.
Nobel Prize: Abdulrazak Gurnah on Wikipedia
Abdulrazak Gurnah won a Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. It was presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 7 October 2021.
Abdulrazak’s worked on uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism. His additional work on the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents was phenomenal.
This ended up being his greatest and finest achievement in history.
The most famous novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah are Paradise in 1994, Desertion in 2005, and By the Sea in 2001.
He went to Britain as a student and studied at Christ Church College, Canterbury. At that time, the degrees were awarded by the University of London.
He then moved to the University of Kent for his Ph.D. For 3 years, he lectured at the Bayero University Kano in Nigeria.
He now works as a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Kent within the Department of English.
Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah Age
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born on 20 December 1984 on the island of Zanzibar. He is 73 years old as of this year.
Abdulrazak’s academic interest is in postcolonial literature and colonialism, especially in Africa, the Caribbean, and India.
He supervised many research projects on the writing of Rushdie, Naipaul, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, and many more.
The editor of a Companion to Salman Rushdie, Gurnah, has edited two volumes of Essays on African Writing.
He wrote a short story My Mother Lived on a Farm in African, in 2006.
He also has written many novels, Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Admiring Silence, The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives.
Abdulrazak Gurnah Net worth
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s net worth details are a little hazy. He has contributed so much in his field; he must have a steady income.
Looking at his history, he has worked very hard and struggled till the very end. Finally, it paid off with a handsome amount of money.
As he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2021 for his work, he got a hefty amount.
The prize amount is worth 10 million Swedish crowns, which is $1.14 million dollars which the Swedish Academy awards.