Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah (* 1948 in Zanzibar, Tanzania today ) is a Tanzanian writer who lives and works in the UK.

Life

From 1980 to 1982 taught at the Bayero University Gurnah Kano in Kano, Nigeria. He then went to the University of Kent, where he received his doctorate in 1982 and since that time teaches there in exile.

Publications

Novels:

• Memory of Departure. In 1987.
• Pilgrims Way. 1988th German: Black on white. Translated by Thomas Brückner. A1, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-927743-72-0.
• Dottie 1990.
• Paradise. New Press, New York 1994, ISBN 1- 56584162X. German: Paradise Lost, Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8105-0888-8.

Short stories:

• My Mother Lived on a farm in Africa. , 2006.

As editor:

• The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, ISBN 978-0-521609951.