Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution.
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Reflecting on the effect of having won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah said the award had made him “think more kindly” about his body of work. “Maybe it wasn’t too bad after all. You do tend to be quite critical about what you do.”