Thursday 11 February 2010

You know Prof. Gurnah


ABDULRAZAK Guarnah is a Professor and famous Tanzania novelist, currently the Lecturer at Kent University in Uk.

Among the common books wrote by Prof. Guarnah include Memory of Departure (1987), Pilgrims Way (1988), Dottie (1990), Paradise (1994), Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001) and Desertion (2005).

Prof. Guarnah received several awards for his writing among those, short listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and also won the Radio France International 'Temoin du Monde' Prize.

He was bon Zanzibar in 1948 and left the Islands to Uk in 1968 for higher learning studies, he married in Ukm became a teacher and visited his native country after 20 years.

Also Prof Guarnah is associate editor of the journal Wasafiri. For more information visit www.contemporarywriters.com

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