Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent; he lives in Canterbury, England..
He is the author of nine previous novels, including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award), and Desertion.
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature