WRITER

Abdulrazak Gurnah

1948 - Today

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdulrazak Gurnah has received more than 1,002,545 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 435th most popular writer (up from 955th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Tanzania (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Tanzanian Writer.

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  • 71

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  • 10.92

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  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 435 out of 7,302. Before him are William of Rubruck, Phaedrus, Andrzej Sapkowski, Frank Herbert, Hector Malot, and Al-Maʿarri. After him are Kurt Vonnegut, Louis Aragon, André Maurois, Meera, Lysias, and Giacomo Leopardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 24. Before him are Antonín Panenka, Henning Mankell, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Marcello Lippi, Sven-Göran Eriksson, and Andrzej Sapkowski. After him are John R. Bolton, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Maurizio Gucci, Klaus Meine, George Tupou V, and George R. R. Martin.

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In Tanzania

Among people born in Tanzania, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 2 out of 39. Before him are Freddie Mercury (1946). After him are Julius Nyerere (1922), Benjamin Mkapa (1938), Jakaya Kikwete (1951), Samia Suluhu Hassan (1960), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), Laurean Rugambwa (1912), Tippu Tip (1837), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), and Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834).

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Among WRITERS In Tanzania

Among writers born in Tanzania, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 1. After him are Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944).

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