Paradise: A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

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RSL Literature Matters Awards 2019". The Royal Society of Literature. 10 September 2018. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020 . Retrieved 14 October 2021. a b Alter, Alexandra (27 October 2021). "He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 27 October 2021. Kaigai, Ezekiel Kimani (April 2014) "Encountering Strange Lands: Migrant Texture in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction". Stellenbosch University. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021. a b "Nobel Prize in Literature 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah honoured". The Irish Times. 7 October 2021. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021 . Retrieved 7 October 2021.

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. Gurnah’s fourth novel, Paradise, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1994, and his sixth, By the Sea, was longlisted in 2001. Olsson said that Paradise “has obvious reference to Joseph Conrad in its portrayal of the innocent young hero Yusuf’s journey to the heart of darkness”. a b King, Bruce (2004). Bate, Jonathan; Burrow, Colin (eds.). The Oxford English Literary History. Vol.13. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.336. ISBN 978-0-19-957538-1. OCLC 49564874. Shariatmadari, David (11 October 2021). " 'I could do with more readers!' – Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the Nobel prize for literature". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 October 2021.

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Domini, John (8 December 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives". The Brooklyn Rail . Retrieved 15 August 2023. Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL (born 20 December 1948) 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. [1] His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The Stateless Person's Tale", in Refugee Tales III, edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus (Comma Press, 2019, ISBN 9781912697113) [62]

Sveriges Television AB, Nobel 2021: Porträtten – Litteraturprisporträttet (in Swedish) , retrieved 9 December 2021 Bosman, Sean James (26 August 2021). "Abdulrazak Gurnah". Rejection of Victimhood in Literature by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea. Brill. pp.36–72. doi: 10.1163/9789004469006_003. ISBN 978-90-04-46900-6. S2CID 241357989. Abdulrazak Gurnah (July 2011). "The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism". Safundi. 12 (3–4): 261–275. doi: 10.1080/17533171.2011.586828. ISSN 1543-1304. Wikidata Q108824246.Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Urges Us Not to Forget the Past". Time. 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 15 August 2023. Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". [1] [2] [3] He is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. [4] Early life and education [ edit ] King, Bruce (2006). "Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions". In Acheson, James; Ross, Sarah C.E. (eds.). The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.85–94. doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-73717-8_8. ISBN 978-1-349-73717-8. OCLC 1104713636.