Paradise: A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

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a b Alter, Alexandra (27 October 2021). "He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 27 October 2021. I am honoured to be awarded this prize and to join the writers who have preceded me on this list. It is overwhelming and I am so proud.” a b c d "Abdulrazak Gurnah: Influencing policymakers, cultural providers, curricula, and the reading public worldwide via new imaginings of empire and postcoloniality". REF 2014 | Impact Case Studies . Retrieved 14 October 2021.

a b "Abdulrazak Gurnah". Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. It’s not always asylum seeking, it can be so many reasons, it can be trade, it can be commerce, it can be education, it can be love,” she said. “The first of his novels I took on at Bloomsbury is called By the Sea, and there’s this haunting image of a man at Heathrow airport with a carved incense box, and that’s all he has. He arrives, and he says one word, and that’s ‘asylum’.” Novelist Maaza Mengiste has described Gurnah's works by saying: "He has written work that is absolutely unflinching and yet at the same time completely compassionate and full of heart for people of East Africa. [...] He is writing stories that are often quiet stories of people who aren’t heard, but there’s an insistence there that we listen." [12] Awami, Sammy (9 October 2021). "In Tanzania, Gurnah's Nobel Prize win sparks both joy and debate". Al Jazeera . Retrieved 10 October 2021.

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Mid Morning Moon". In: Wasafiri (3 May 2011), vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 25–29. doi: 10.1080/02690055.2011.557532. Themes and Structures in Midnight's Children". In: The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie. Edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780521609951. [63] Abdulrazak Gurnah on being appointed as Man Booker Prize judge". University of Kent. 26 October 2016 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. Gurnah lives in Canterbury [38] and has British citizenship. [39] He maintains close ties with Tanzania, where he still has family and where he says he goes when he can: "I am from there. In my mind I live there." [40] He is married to the Guyanese-born scholar of literature, Denise de Caires Narain. [41] [42] [43] [44] Writings [ edit ] Novels [ edit ]

Pringle said Gurnah is as important a writer as Chinua Achebe. “His writing is particularly beautiful and grave and also humorous and kind and sensitive. He’s an extraordinary writer writing about really important things.” Sveriges Television AB, Nobel 2021: Porträtten – Litteraturprisporträttet (in Swedish) , retrieved 9 December 2021 verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Lavery, Charné (May 2013). "White-washed Minarets and Slimy Gutters: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Narrative Form and Indian Ocean Space". English Studies in Africa. 56 (1): 117–127. doi: 10.1080/00138398.2013.780686. ISSN 0013-8398. S2CID 143927840.Paradise (1994) [48] (shortlisted for the Booker Prize [49] and the Whitbread Prize; [49] selected for the Big Jubilee Read) Jones, Nisha (2005). "Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation". Wasafiri, 20:46, 37–42. doi: 10.1080/02690050508589982. a b Kohler, Sophy (4 May 2017). " 'The spice of life': trade, storytelling and movement in Paradise and By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah". Social Dynamics. 43 (2): 274–285. doi: 10.1080/02533952.2017.1364471. ISSN 0253-3952. S2CID 149236009.

Lewis, Simon (May 2013). "Postmodern Materialism in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Dottie: Intertextuality as Ideological Critique of Englishness". English Studies in Africa. 56 (1): 39–50. doi: 10.1080/00138398.2013.780680. ISSN 0013-8398. S2CID 145731880. Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature". Wasafiri. 8 October 2021 . Retrieved 31 October 2021. a b c Alter, Alexandra (5 November 2021). "Why one Nobel Laureate is struggling to sell books in America". The Independent. Archived from the original on 5 November 2021.Domini, John (8 December 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives". The Brooklyn Rail . Retrieved 15 August 2023. Whyte, Philip (2004). "Heritage as Nightmare: The Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah", in: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 27, no. 1:11–18.