- Abdulrazak Gurnah was born on December 20, 1948 in Zanzibar, British Protectorate [now Zanzibar, Tanzania].
- He grew up in Zanzibar, before it became part of Tanzania. He has spent most of his adult life in the UK after fleeing the violence that followed the 1964 revolution.
- Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- He was a professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, UK, until his retirement.
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