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Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-

LC control no.n 87934440
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR9399.9.G87
Personal name headingGurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-
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Variant(s)Qarnaḥ, Abd al-Razzāq, 1948-
قرنح, عبد الرزاق, 1948-
LocatedGreat Britain
Birth date1948-12-20
Place of birthZanzibar (Tanzania)
Field of activityEnglish literature
AffiliationUniversity of Kent at Canterbury
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Novelists Nobel Prize winners
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated
Found inMemory of departure, 1987: title page (Abdulrazak Gurnah) jacket (b. 1948 in Zanzibar, Tanzania; he teaches English literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury)
Wikipedia, Oct. 6, 2021 (Abdulrazak Gurnah (b. Dec. 20, 1948) is a novelist who was born in Zanzibar and lives in the United Kingdom; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents")
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrazak_Gurnah>
al-Fāʼiz bi-jāʼizat Nūbil lil-ādāb 2021 ʻAbd al-Razzāq Qarnaḥ, 2022 : title page (عبد الرزاق قرنح = ʻAbd al-Razzāq Qarnaḥ)
Associated languageeng