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Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah poses for a photo at his home in Canterbury, England, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. AP. Last year’s prize went to American poet Louise Glück.

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 ...

When Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 7 — the first Black African writer since Nigerian Wole Soyinka won it in 1986 — you could almost hear the head ...

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.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. STOCKHOLM — U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

On Thursday, Mr. Gurnah became the sixth Africa-born writer to win the literary award, a prize long dominated by Western writers. He is known as “one of the world’s most prominent post ...