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Abdulrazak Gurnah Q&A: “What bugs me? The smug self-regard of the powerful”
The writer on Primo Levi and his grandchildren’s art
New Statesman | March 3, 2025

Abdulrazak Gurnah: “Avanzamos a ser mejores seres humanos y de repente sale electo Trump”
El escritor británico de origen tanzano y Nobel de Literatura 2021 diserta en el Hay Festival de Arequipa
El Pais | November 11, 2024

Angelina Jolie Talks the Legacy of Colonialism With Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah left his homeland—the island of Zanzibar—during the revolution and upheaval that followed the end of colonial rule on the island
Time | September 27, 2023

A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize winner in Literature 2021
Administered by the African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), the Conversations with African Poets and Writers series presents interviews with current African diaspora writers
The Library of Congress | May 5, 2022

Profiles and Features

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – love and betrayal from the Nobel laureate
This is a powerful story of debt and obligation set against the tourism boom in post-colonial Tanzania
The Guardian | March 19, 2025

Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah on writing: ‘I end up in Zanzibar’
The Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah explains his new novel, Theft, the themes of exile and powerlessness that run through his work, and why, despite his best efforts, he keeps returning to Zanzibar.
The Africa Report | February 22, 2025

Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s New Novel Tackles Friendship Amid Global Change
Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, is set to release his much-anticipated new novel, Theft, on March 18, 2025.
Brittle Paper | February 3, 2025

Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Nobel laureate’s reflections on literature, history and migration
Tanzanian-British author says African literature’s worldly tone is responsible for its global appeal
The National | January 30, 2025

A Nobel Laureate Revisits the Great War’s African Front
Abdulrazak Gurnah vividly captures colonial and post-colonial histories of abuse and dispossession, but also startling acts of reclamation and renewal.
The New Yorker | October 17, 2022

Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Prize in Literature for portraying fate of refugees
Judges praised his 'compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism'
The National | October 7, 2021