The African novelist Nuruddin Farah recalls the bad and the good from his student days in India in the 1960s.
Tag: Abdulrazak Gurnah
‘African Writing Is Vibrant and Living’: Damon Galgut
In an interview, the South African novelist speaks about his Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Promise' and how it reflects race and history in his country.
Why the Work of Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Champion of Heartbreaks, Stands Out For Me
His novels delve deeply into family separation, endless betrayals of core familial relations, and the inexorable pull of the lost past.
Abdulrazak Gurnah: What You Need to Know About the Nobel Prize-Winning Author
Migration and cultural uprooting along with the cultural and ethnic diversity of East Africa are at the heart of Gurnah’s fiction.