Adulrazak Gurnah, he is among the famous books writer, he wrote different books and worn several prize. The novel book known as Paradise was short listed for the booker Prize and Whitbread Award. And By the Sea was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
In 1968 Gurnah went to Britain as a student, after several years of study he went to Nigeria, it was 1980-1982 he used to thought at the university of Kano, and in 1982he received his Ph.D. from the university of Canterbury where he has been teaching English literature since 1982. Now teaches literature at the University of Kent. A part from teaching also he is associated editor of the journal Wasafiri.
Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948, comes from Islamic background,he visit his native country 20 years later profoundly affects his attitude towards both himself and his marriage. By the Sea (2001), is narrated by Saleh Omar, an elderly asylum-seeker living in an English seaside town.
Novel writen by Gurnah
• Memory of Departure (1987)
• Pilgrims Way (1988)
• Dottie (1990)
• Paradise (1994)
• Admiring Silence (1996)
• By the Sea (2001)
• Desertion (2005)
Prizes and awards
1994 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) Paradise
2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) (shortlist) By the Sea
2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) (shortlist) Desertion
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