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 Kohut]

I say I had not heard of him but since I do usually look at Booker
nominations and finalists, I must have seen his name, which empire
flattening of "foreign names" meant I never registered it enough
to remember it now....being an empire resident effects everything including
language retention of course...

I have ordered *Paradise* the first one published in the US and a Booker
listed or finalist.....told my bookseller if that one is not available
today, try* Desertion,* the second feted one.

A bookshop in England is getting me a price on his newest or latest,*
Afterlives,* which they have in stock.

You can bet American---and Canadian!--publishing houses are making
publication deals as we speak, or trying to....and going to press today on
the ones they own.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 7:43 AM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>