Abdulrazak Gurnah

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**Abdulrazak Gurnah** FRSL (born 20 December 1948) 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. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; Desertion (2005); and By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". He is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrazak_Gurnah)

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Theft
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Vida, DespuéS. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021 / Afterlives
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By the Sea
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By the Sea
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El desertor
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Raj
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Afterlives
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A orillas del mar / Bythe Sea
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La vida, després. Premi Nobel de literatura 2021
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A la vora de la mar
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Afterlives
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Paradise
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À Beira-mar
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The last gift
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Gravel Heart
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Deniz Kenarinda
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Kumdan Yürek
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Das verlorene Paradies
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Memory of departure
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Sessizlige Hayranlik
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Son Hediye
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Terkedis
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The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie
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Desertion
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