Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah (lahir 20 Disember 1948) ialah seorang penulis dari Tanzania. Beliau Profesor Emeritus dalam bidang Sastera Inggeris dan Pascajajahan di Universiti Kent.

Beliau berjaya menerima Hadiah Nobel dalam Kesusasteraan 2021 atas penghargaan terhadap karya tulisannya mengenai "pendalaman memahamkan dan tanpa kompromi kesan kolonialisme dan nasib para pelarian yang dalam pusaran antara budaya dan benua".

 Biografi 
Abdulrazak lahir pada 20 Disember 1948 di Kesultanan Zanzibar. Beliau berketurunan orang Arab; revolusi menggolak dan mengorbankan ramai sebangsanya di pulau itu pada 1984 memaksanya berhijrah ke UK pada usia 18 tahun.

Senarai karya
 Novel 
Memory of Departure (1987)
Pilgrims Way (1988)
Dottie (1990)
Paradise (1994) (disenaraipendekkan untuk Hadiah Booker dan Hadiah Whitbread)
Admiring Silence (1996)
By the Sea (2001) (disenaraikan untuk Hadiah Booker Prize dan disenaraipendekkan untuk Los Angeles Times Book Prize)
Desertion (2005)
The Last Gift (2011)
Gravel Heart (2017)
Afterlives (2020)

 Cerita pendek 
"Cages" (1984), dalam African Short Stories suntingan Chinua Achebe dan Catherine Lynette Innes. Heinemann Educational Books. 
"Bossy" (1994), dalam African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience suntingan Nadežda Obradović. Anchor Books. 
"Escort" (1996), dalam Wasafiri, vol. 11, no. 23, 44–48.  
"The Photograph of the Prince" (2012), dalam Road Stories: New Writing Inspired by Exhibition Road suntingan Mary Morris. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. 
"My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa" (2006), dalam NW 14: The Anthology of New Writing, Volume 14, seleksi Lavinia Greenlaw dan Helon Habila, London: Granta Books
"The Arriver's Tale", Refugee Tales (2016)
"The Stateless Person's Tale", Refugee Tales III (2019)

 Essays, criticism, and non-fiction 
 "Matigari: A Tract of Resistance" dalam Research in African Literatures, vol. 22, no. 4, Indiana University Press, 1991, pp. 169–72. .
 "Imagining the Postcolonial Writer" dalam Reading the 'New' Literatures in a Postcolonial Era suntingan Susheila Nasta. D. S. Brewer, Cambridge 2000. .
 "The Wood of the Moon" dalam Transition, no. 88, Indiana University Press, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, 2001, pp. 88–113. .
 "Themes and Structures in Midnight's Children" dalam The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie suntingan Abdulrazak Gurnah. Cambridge University Press, 2007. .Gurnah, Abdulrazak, "7 – Themes and structures in Midnight's Children", in Gurnah (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie, Cambridge University Press, 28 November 2007.
  "Mid Morning Moon" dalam Wasafiri (3 May 2011), vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 25–29. . 

 "Learning to Read" dalam Matatu, no. 46, 2015, pp. 23–32, 268.

 Sebagai penyunting 
 Essays on African Writing (Pearson Education Limited, 1995)
 A Companion to Salman Rushdie (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

 Rujukan 

 Pautan luar 
 Maklumat Penerima Hadiah Nobel dalam Kesusasteraan 2021

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