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His uncompromising writing on the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees
Gurnah writes about Zanzibar and East Africa, colonialism, and the lives of refugees and migrants caught between cultures. Paradise (1994) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was the first Black African writer to win the Literature prize since Wole Soyinka in 1986.
Novelist born in Zanzibar who came to England as a refugee in the late 1960s and taught at the University of Kent.