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Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah uses fiction as a bridge to the realities of colonialism, refugees

Published October 13, 2021 at 1:40 PM EDT

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the first Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for literature in three decades. His novels center on themes of migration, identity and effects of colonialism in East Africa.

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