Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948 in Zanzibar) is a Tanzanian novelist based in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Career

From 1980-1982, Gurnah lectured at the Bayero University Kano in Nigeria. He then moved to the University of Kent where he earned his Ph.D. from in 1982. He is now a lecturer at the University of Kent. His novels include:

  • Memory of Departure (1987)
  • Pilgrims Way (1988)
  • Dottie (1990)
  • Paradise (1994)
  • Admiring Silence (1996)
  • By the Sea (2001)
  • Desertion (2005)

And his short stories include:

  • My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa (2006)

[edit] Sources

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