Publications

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. The Last King of Zanzibar. (Expected 2025)

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Theft. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Afterlives. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020. (Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021; longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize)

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Gravel Heart. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017.

Gurhah, Abdulrazak. The Last Gift. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Desertion. London: Bloomsbury, 2005. (Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize)

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. By the Sea. London: Bloomsbury, 2001. (Longlisted for the Booker Prize; shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize)

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Admiring Silence. New York: The New Press, 1996.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Paradise. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994. (Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award)

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Dottie. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Pilgrims Way. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Memory of Departure. London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. “The Stateless Person’s Tale.” In Refugee Tales III, edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus. Comma Press. 2019.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. “The Arriver’s Tale.” In Refugee Tales, edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus. Comma Press. 2016.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. “The Photograph of the Prince.” In Road Stories: New Writing Inspired by Exhibition Road, edited by Mary Morris. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. 2012.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. “My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa.” In NW 14: The Anthology of New Writing, Volume 14, selected by Lavinia Greenlaw and Helon Habila. Granta Books. 2006.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. “Escort.” In Wasafiri, vol. 11, no. 23, pp. 44–48. 1996

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. “Bossy.” In African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience, edited by Nadežda Obradović. Anchor Books. 1994.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. “Cages,” in African Short Stories, edited by Chinua Achebe and Catherine Lynette Innes. Heinemann Educational Books, 1984.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, ed. Road Stories: New Stories Inspired by Exhibition Road. London: Exhibition Road Cultural Group, 2012.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, ed. Essays on African Writing: Contemporary Literature. Oxford: Heinemann, 1995.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, ed. Essays on African writing: A re-evaluation. Pearson Education Limited. 1993

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, “From Zanzibar to Marbach.” Granta, 2023. 

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, “Writing Place.” World Literature Today, 2021.