Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today was born in Zanzibar and moved to Britain in the late 1960s as a teenager.

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  He's written a number of works, most notably paradise,

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  which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984,

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  followed by being long listed in 2001 for by the Sea.

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  Four years later, desertion was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers prize,

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  and in 2021, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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  He was the first black writer to receive the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993,

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  and the first African writer since 2007, when Doris Lessing was the recipient.

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  He was a lot more gracious in his acceptance than Lessing.

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  His latest book is Theft, a story that captures the life of zanzibar in the 1990s.

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  Three young people, Karim, Fawzia and Badar, dream of possibilities for their nation.

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  It's a story of love and friendship within the times,

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  of political and economic changes within the country,

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  and how lives are connected and tested through time.

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  Abdel Razak Gurnan.

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  Welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you.

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  I'm so interested in your background and the fact that you were born in Zanzibar,

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