Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abstract

This year, Abdulrazak Gurnah received the Nobel Prize for Literature following over three decades publishing novels and short stories inspired by his exile from Zanzibar and Tanzania. He was my PhD supervisor at the University of Kent from 2001. I wrote “The Public Personage as Protagonist in the Novels of Anthony Burgess” under his guidance. I share here some brief reflections of that time.