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Abdulrazak Gurnah

September 2022

  • Abdulrazak Gurnah and Margaret Atwood.

    Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman among authors signed up for Ukrainian book festival

    Lviv BookForum is partnering with Hay festival for a programme of in-person and online events, which will be streamed free from 6-9 October

July 2022

  • Abdulrazak Gurnah

    The books of my life
    Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘My comfort reading is cricket reports’

    The Tanzanian-born Nobel laureate on James Baldwin, brilliant contemporary African writers and reading cricket reports

May 2022

  • The Schatzalp, the luxury sanatorium near Davos that appears in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about neighbours

    From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction

April 2022

  • Clockwise from top left: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nicola Sturgeon, Bernardine Evaristo, Joe Wicks, Corinne Bailey Rae and Damon Galgut.

    Hay festival returns with its first in-person event for three years

    Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bernardine Evaristo, Elif Shafak and Benedict Cumberbatch are among those taking part in the 11-day gathering in Welsh border town

March 2022

  • Tom Hanks in the 2012 film version of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 world-spanning novels

    Writers from David Mitchell to Graham Greene and Rachel Kushner tell stories that seek out interconnectedness, testing and pulling at the idea of nationhood

December 2021

  • Abdulrazak Gurnah.

    Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah says ‘writing cannot be just about polemics’

    The Zanzibari novelist spoke of migration, colonialism and how he became a writer in his acceptance lecture on Tuesdsay

October 2021

  • Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 winner of the Nobel prize in literature.

    The Guardian view on the Nobel prize in literature: beauty out of universal loss

    Editorial: Abdulrazak Gurnah may be writing about leaving Zanzibar for Britain, but he gives voice to displaced people everywhere
  • ‘Terror ruled our lives’ … Gurnah fled Zanzibar after the revolution and now lives in Canterbury.

    ‘I could do with more readers!’ – Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the Nobel prize for literature

    His lyrical novels about exile and loss enjoy critical acclaim but modest sales. Now he’s Zanzibar’s second most famous son – and £840,000 richer. The writer talks about racism on British buses, Priti Patel, and why books have to entertain
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah, who has been awarded the Nobel prize in literature, in London on Friday.

    Abdulrazak Gurnah: where to start with the Nobel prize winner

    Novelist Maaza Mengiste on how the Nobel laureate has explored exile in all its forms throughout his career
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