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Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature award.

Gurnah has until his recent retirement been Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent in Canterbury, focusing principally on writers such as Wole Soyinka, James Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Salman Rushdie.

He was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and went to Britain as a Student in 1968.

From 1980-1982, Gurnah lectured at the Bayero University, Kano in Nigeria. He then moved to the University of Kent where he earned his Ph.D. in 1982. He is now a lecturer at the University of Kent. Some of his novels include:
*"Memory of Departure" (1987)
*"Pilgrims Way" (1988)
*"Dottie" (1990)
*"Paradise" (1994)
*"Admiring Silence" (1996)
*"By the Sea" (2001)
*"Desertion" (2005)

SOURCE

His novel "Paradise" was shortlisted for the Booker's Prize in 1994.

Wow! This is commendable, making us proud to be African.

FTC?

Congratulations to him!

Alright!

Beautiful

He was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and went to Britain as a Student in 1968.

if only ...........................................

Good news from the North....brilliance abound in Nigeria. Only problem is there are more stupid people

Edited
No good news from the North oo unless na Northern Tanzania....Northern Nigeria!!! We still dey wait....

Hmmmm

This is a great achievement.
We always celebrate people that make our darling nation proud out there.

God bless all honest and hardworking Nigerians.

Steppinrazor:
oga manna this gem is not a Nigerian, he’s Zanzibari from Tanzania ���he only lectured in Kano

Thank you Oga Steppin Razor for pointing that out!
It is always good to see the Nigerian connection.

Congratulations

Nice one

Divepen1:
Wow! This is commendable, making us proud to be African.

Very Commendable.
Glad to read from.youbafter such a long time Bro Divepen.
You have a special part in our heart concerning the gospel literatures and threads you have created here.
You made our genesis/foundation on Nairaland a happy and unforgettable one especially with the other guys we come around to meet on God's round table many years ago.
God bless you Bro.

See as HE resemble Wole Soyinka.

God bless you sir

Wow congrats ...

Congratulations

A good one from the North

I can see those bandits from Afghaneastern insulting Soyinka.

I thought he is Nigerian but he's not.

Commendable !!! Some few people making the nation proud

Gfrey6:
A good one from the North

He's from Zanzibar.

The OP is a bit disingenuous.

The brilliant Prof. is NOT Nigerian.
Congratulations nonetheless.

Congratulations

Kellie069:
Commendable !!! Some few people making the nation proud

No be Nigerian o

looks like Wole Soyinka.

Congratulations to him.
Success truly has many friends.

This is good