Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” Gurnah writes in English, and teaches English Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His principal publisher has been Bloomsbury UK. His longtime editor there Alexandra Pringle said, “He is one of the greatest living African writers, and no one has ever taken any notice of him and it’s just killed me. I did a podcast last week and in it I said that […]
