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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Zanzibar-born novelist and essayist whose work explores exile, migration, memory, and the legacies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world. He arrived in the United Kingdom as a refugee in the 1960s, an experience central to his writing. He later served as Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. His fiction is noted for restrained prose and psychological depth. Major works include Paradise, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Afterlives. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. In Czech, readers can find Ráj (Prostor, trans. Petra Nagyová).
 

 Abdulrazak Gurnah

Guest program

Theft: the latest novel by Nobel laureate A. Gurnah

Book World Prague 2026

17:00 - 17:50

Nakladatelství PROSTOR, Svět knihy

Czech, English

Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah will present his latest novel "Theft", published in Czech by PROSTOR. The author will discuss the book with...

Friday, 15. 5. 2026

Abdulrazak Gurnah - autogramiáda

Book World Prague 2026

18:00 - 18:50

Nakladatelství PROSTOR

Friday, 15. 5. 2026

Writing and Thinking Colonialism

Book World Prague 2026

14:00 - 14:50

Svět knihy, Nakladatelství PROSTOR, Francouzský institut v Praze – French Institute in Prague, CEFRES, Univerzita Karlova, Nakladatelství Karolinum

Czech, English

How to write and think colonialism — not as distant history, but as a structure still shaping bodies, languages, and desires? In this conversation, Abdulrazak...

Saturday, 16. 5. 2026