Mohamed Mbougar Sarr : Goncourt Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Prix Goncourt 2021, in Paris, at his publisher. © Bruno Lévy for JA With The most secret memory of menthe young Senegalese became the first author from sub-Saharan Africa to win the prestigious Goncourt Prize. A book in which, over nearly 450 pages, the hero, Diégane, goes … Read more
The Nobel Prize for Literature from 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah He highlighted this Saturday in Frankfurt the diversity that exists in East Africa, when he presented the German edition of his novel “Life After”. The fact that the first prominent character that appears in it, Khalifa, is someone with an Indian Muslim father and an African … Read more
Posted Oct 7, 2021, 1:53 PMUpdated Oct 7, 2021, 4:00 PM The Nobel Prize in Literature crowned Abdulrazak Gurnah, a writer of Tanzanian origin based in the United Kingdom, on Thursday October 7. The 72-year-old novelist, who teaches literature at the University of Kent, was awarded for his story “empathetic and uncompromising of the effects … Read more
Crowned with the Nobel Prize for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah receives this Monday, December 6, the most prestigious literary prize for his stories on immigration and colonization, during a ceremony in the United Kingdom where the novelist born in Zanzibar has lived in exile for over half a century. Pandemic requires, the Nobel in science and … Read more
“Khalifa was twenty-six years old when he met the merchant Amur Biashara while working for a modest loan house owned by two Gujarati brothers. The Indian moneylenders were the only ones who had dealings with the local merchants and adapted to their way of trading. The big banks tried to impose paperwork, endorsements and guarantees … Read more
GONZALO TORN Actualizado Martes, 13 septiembre 2022 – 12:04 La ltima novela del escritor africano, escrita un ao antes de recibir el Nobel, aborda las complejidades de la expansin europea en frica y remite a autores como Coetzee o Naipaul Muchos lectores (entre los que me encuentro) escucharon por primera vez el nombre de Abdulrazak … Read more
The Swedish Academy has once again surprised the whole world, by awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, absent from all the forecasts, very numerous as the announcement of the award approaches. The institution hailed the work of the author, and his ” a penetrating, uncompromising and compassionate look at … Read more
Originally from Zanzibar, the Briton Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the author of a dozen novels, volumes of short stories and literary essays. The writer was recently in Paris on the occasion of the reissue of his three novels translated into French: Heaven, Farewell Zanzibar and Near the sea … Read more
The Nobel Prize for Literature awarded last year to Abdulrazak Gurnah opened the door to a new interest in African literature. In fact, the number of award-winning writers multiplied, namely: Paulina Chiziane, from Mozambique, won the Camões award; the Senegalese Boubacar Boris Diop, the Neustadt International Prize 2022; Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, also from Senegal, received … Read more
Raíces y libro. El escritor Abdulrazak Gurnah, ganador del Nobel de Literatura 2021. (Foto REUTERS/Henry Nicholls) Sorprendió tanto cuando se anunció que el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021 se llamaba Abdulrazak Gurnah que hasta la Academia Sueca –quienes lo habían elegido- puso una encuesta en su página web preguntando quién lo conocía. Y lo conocíamos … Read more