Abdulrazak Gurnah received the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels, including Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Admiring Silence, The Last Gift, Dottie, Gravel Heart and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.

His novel Paradise was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award; By the Sea was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, while Desertion was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

He was professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury, UK.

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