Abdulrazak Gurnah Quotes

born 1948 Tanzania

Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution.

Tanzania
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Random Abdulrazak Gurnah quote

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I learned to have pleasure in reading simply because I love stories.

Nobel Lecture and Interview (2021)

Our histories were partial, silent about many cruelties.

Nobel Lecture and Interview (2021)

Now, Britain has seen those despised people become fellow citizens and has learnt tolerance and discrimination in public dealings with them. In this respect, it is a more generous society than the one I first met 30 years ago.

Fear and loathing (2001)

I think the best moment in writing is when you think, yep, I think it’s done…Writing is best when it’s complete, when it’s finished .

Nobel Lecture and Interview (2021)

It was necessary to write of the persecutions and cruelties which the self-congratulations of our rulers sought to wipe from our memory.

Nobel Lecture and Interview (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abdulrazak Gurnah (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.