Not Pynchon once again. (who it will never be) But another blow against empires. More refugees in the world than even at the end of WW2.

[Mark Thibodeau]

So... does anyone here know this guy and his work well enough to suggest
his one or two essential works for the likes of we (by which I mean
generally interested in keeping our thumbs on the pulse of the global
literary scene without necessarily having to have developed some sort of
all-encompassing thesis about said scene)?

I mean... just just won the Nobel. He writes in English. We should maybe
see what the hype is about?

Jerky

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 7:14 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
> Abdulrazak Gurnah
> <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/gurnah/facts/>
> The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 is awarded to the novelist
> Abdulrazak
> Gurnah <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/gurnah/facts/>
> “for
> his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of
> colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and
> continents”.
>
> Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar in the Indian
> Ocean but arrived in England as a refugee in the end of the 1960’s. He has
> published ten novels and a number of short stories. The theme of the
> refugee’s disruption runs throughout his work.
> Related articles
>
>    - Press release
>    <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/press-release/>
>    - Biobibliographical notes
>    <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/bio-bibliography/>
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