Abdulrazak Gurnah

Novelist

1948-12-20

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s. His fiction frequently explores exile, memory, and East African colonial history. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021.

Quotes by Abdulrazak Gurnah

I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.
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