The Most Famous
WRITERS from Tanzania
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tanzanian Writers of all time. This list of famous Tanzanian Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948 - )
With an HPI of 61.34, Abdulrazak Gurnah is the most famous Tanzanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 59 different languages on wikipedia.
Abdulrazak Gurnah (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. 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. 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". He is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1948 and 1948. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living writers include Abdulrazak Gurnah. As of April 2022, 1 new writers have been added to Pantheon including Abdulrazak Gurnah.
