{"id":24301,"date":"2021-10-12T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccualumni.com\/?p=24301"},"modified":"2021-10-12T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T10:22:36","slug":"abdulrazak-gurnah-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/2021\/10\/12\/abdulrazak-gurnah-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Prize for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Christ Church alumnus of the 1960s and Honorary Fellow Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1948 in Zanzibar, Abdulrazak is the author of seven novels which include <em>Paradise<\/em> (shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prizes), <em>By the Sea<\/em> (longlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the RFI Temoin du Monde Prize), and <em>Desertion<\/em> (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. <em>The Last Gift<\/em>, published by Bloomsbury in May 2011, is an astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdulrazak is first Black African writer to win the prize for literature in 35 years for his &#8220;uncompromising and compassionate&#8221; portrayal of refugees and the effects of colonialism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Christ Church alumnus of the 1960s and Honorary Fellow Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1948 in Zanzibar, Abdulrazak is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-updates","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Luke Westhead","featuredImage":false,"postExcerpt":"Congratulations to Christ Church alumnus of the 1960s and Honorary Fellow Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1948 in Zanzibar, Abdulrazak is the [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}