This novel follows the quiet yet profound coming-of-age of Yusuf, a boy navigating servitude, identity and cultural loss in ...

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah poses ahead of a press conference in London, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.

When Abdulrazak Gurnah released his 10th book, “Afterlives,” last year, his editor was sure it would become his first major best seller. For more than three decades, he had drawn stellar ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Well, I don't know about reckoning. I think there is a need to pay attention to those historical responsibilities, to the things that happened, and not to be in denial about them.

ABDULRAZAK GURNAH: Thank you. It's a pleasure. SIMON: I think we can stipulate that British, French, Belgian, Italian and, for that matter, American corporate colonization in Africa could be cruel.

In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s Tanzania. By Lauren Christensen But a full calendar meant carving ...

With a title like “Theft,” it’s not unreasonable to expect that most readers of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel will expect a story centered around a significant theft, or a series of thefts or a ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel prize for literature . The Tanzanian novelist, who is based in the UK, was awarded the prize for h. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Phil Dunster, Ashley Zhangazha and Eunice Wong capture the voices and drama of ‘The Impossible Thing,’ ‘Theft’ and ‘The Original Daughter’ ...

In an interview after receiving the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah said that, while he writes about “little people” rather than the famous or the outsize, “I think there ...

In 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In Theft, his first novel since he won the award, a teenage servant in Dar es Salaam is accused of stealing, but finds a way ...

Until now, Gurnah’s career has unfolded beneath our radar, but “Afterlives” is a superb achievement and a welcome, if overdue, introduction to American readers. “Afterlives” Abdulrazak ...