# Abdulrazak Gurnah
Top podcast episodes
Updated:
abdulrazak gurnah (born 1948 in Zanzibar) is a Tanzanian novelist, who writes in English and is based in the United Kingdom. The most famous of his novels are Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize, Desertion (2005), and By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
== Background and career ==
Born on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of East Africa, Gurnah went to Britain as a student in 1968.From 1980 to 1982, Gurnah lectured at the Bayero University Kano in Nigeria.
Literary Festival 2011 - Placing Mobilities
Contributor(s): Brian Chikwava, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olumide Popoola
Literary Festival 2011 - Placing Mobilities
Contributor(s): Brian Chikwava, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olumide Popoola
Literary Festival 2011 - Placing Mobilities
Contributor(s): Brian Chikwava, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olumide Popoola
Literary Festival 2011 - Placing Mobilities
Contributor(s): Brian Chikwava, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olumide Popoola
Literary Festival 2011 - Placing Mobilities
Contributor(s): Brian Chikwava, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olumide Popoola
Literary Festival 2011 - Placing Mobilities
Contributor(s): Brian Chikwava, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olumide Popoola
Tom Cox and Sophie Scott
THE STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields, chosen by Tom Cox
HOW TO WRITE A THESIS by Umberto Eco, chosen by Sophie Scott
PARADISE by Abdulrazak Gurnah, chosen by Harriett Gilbert
Writer Tom Cox joins neuroscientist Sophie Scott to discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Tom's choice is the 1995 Pu…
Memory of Departure Audiobook
Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Memory of DepartureCategories: Dark Humor, Fiction, Funny, Historical FictionRelease date: 07-21-2022Language: EnglishSummary:Bloomsbury presents Memory of Departure by Abdulrazak Gurnah, read by Faaiz Mbelizi.
The debut novel b…
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah on Germany's Colonial Past
“National narratives tell you what you must not say.”
In this episode, Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah joins HEIST founding editor Peter
Matthews.
Gurnah challenges history from a European perspective. To him, the idea of European centers is not just an oversight, but a kind of blindness.
Hi…
Episode 44: 10 Questions with Dr. Ida Hadjivayanis
10 Questions with Feminist Academics
In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.
Bio
Ida Hadjivayanis is an academic at SOAS University of London where she lectures on Swa…
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,822,672 podcasts and 195,596,809 episodes by people, places, or topics.
If I have seen further than others, it is by listening to podcasts and standing upon the shoulders of
giants.
‐ Isaac "Llamacorn" Newton
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
