Paradise
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nobel Prize in Literature | 2021 | Winner |
About This Book
Yusuf, a twelve-year-old boy in colonial East Africa at the turn of the twentieth century, is given as collateral for his father's debt to a wealthy merchant. As he travels with the merchant's trading expeditions into the African interior, he discovers a continent being torn apart by Arab and European colonialism. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1994.
About the Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-British novelist and academic born on 20 December 1948 in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. He fled to the United Kingdom in 1968 as a refugee following the Zanzibar Revolution, later gaining British citizenship. He studied at Christ Church College, Canterbury, earned a PhD from the University of Kent in 1982, and taught English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent until his retirement in 2017, becoming professor emeritus. Read more →
