On her list are Partha Chatterjee’s For a Just Republic (Permanent Black), Prabhat Patnaik’s Socialism and the Indian ...

When author and academic Abdulrazak Gurnah first visited India, he travelled to Mumbai (then Bombay), and was struck by how closely the city’s architecture resembled that of his hometown, Zanzibar (in ...

Zanzibar has long been an island of arrivals for traders, sailors, slaves and, more recently, waves of tourists. I arrived as a wedding guest and a reader of the Zanzibar born novelist Abdulrazak ...

In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Theft,” a Tanzanian servant named Badar is listening to an anecdote being told by an older friend, the house’s gardener. Impatient with the gardener’s digressions, Badar tries ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Cover Art for “Theft” owned by Riverhead Books. With a title like “Theft,” it’s not unreasonable ...

In 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In Theft, his first novel since he won the award, a teenage servant in Dar es Salaam is accused of stealing, but finds a way ...

STOCKHOLM - Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals. The Swedish Academy ...

STOCKHOLM — Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy said Thursday the award was in recognition of his “uncompromising and compassionate ...