This year Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar (part of Tanzania from 1964), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah was a teenager in 1964 when Zanzibar’s Arab Sultan was overthrown by African revolutionaries. Thousands of Arabs and South Asians were killed in the
Answers: Refugees and Migrants in Fiction
Answers: Refugees and Migrants in Fiction
Answers: Refugees and Migrants in Fiction
This year Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar (part of Tanzania from 1964), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah was a teenager in 1964 when Zanzibar’s Arab Sultan was overthrown by African revolutionaries. Thousands of Arabs and South Asians were killed in the