Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah (born in the Protectorate of Zanzibar in 1948 ) is a Tanzanian writer who lives and works in Great Britain .
Life
From 1980 to 1982 Gurnah taught at Bayero University Kano in Kano , Nigeria . He then went to the University of Kent , where he received his doctorate in 1982 and has been teaching there in exile since then.
Gurnah was a 2016 judge for the Man Booker Prize
Publications
Novels:
- Memory of Departure. Jonathan Cape, London 1987, ISBN 0-224024329 .
- Pilgrims Way. 1988. German: Black on white . Translated by Thomas Brückner . A1, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-927743-72-0 .
- Dottie 1990.
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Paradise . New Press, New York City 1994, ISBN 1-56584162X .
- German: Das verlorene Paradies , Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8105-0888-8 .
- Admiring Silence. 1996. German: Thunderende Stille, Edition Koppa, Munich, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-932000-50-1 .
- By the Sea. 2001. German: Ferne Gestade, translated by Thomas Brückner. Edition Koppa, Munich, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-932000-64-1 .
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Desertion. Bloomsbury, London 2006, ISBN 0-7475-7895-8 .
- German: The Renegades. Translated by Stefanie Schaffer-de Vries. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0578-7 .
- The Last Gift. Bloomsbury, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-408-81518-2 .
- Gravel Heart . Bloomsbury, London 2017
Short stories:
- My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa. 2006.
as editor:
- The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, ISBN 978-0-521609951 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Abdulrazak Gurnah in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Abdulrazak Gurnah in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Biography in the African People Database ( Memento from February 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Abdulrazak Gurnah , at Marabout
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clean cups. East African authors in the Hessian Literature Forum in FAZ on February 26, 2011, page 51
- ↑ 2016 Judges announced , at: thebookerprizes, December 14, 2015
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gurnah, Abdulrazak |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tanzanian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zanzibar |