# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abdulrazak-gurnah
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:46.044Z

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name: "Abdulrazak Gurnah"
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description: "Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist and academic of Yemeni origin. 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."
tagline: "Tanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948)"
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birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump