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 The Nobel Prize in Literature goes to ... Abdulrazak Gurnah 

       They've announced the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, and it is Abdulrazak Gurnah. 
       The Zanzibar-born (and longtime UK resident) author was not on too many radars I think, but is a solid choice; it's been years since I read anything by him but I was quite impressed by his work. (I am somewhat disappointed that they chose yet another English-writing author.) 
       His Paradise was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994, while his most recent novel appears to be Afterlives (2020); see the Bloomsbury publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk; amazingly, this does not seem to have come out in a US edition (yet -- that will be rectified shortly, no doubt). 

       For information about the author, see, for example:

• Abdulrazak Gurnah at the British Council
• Abdulrazak Gurnah at RCW Literary Agency
• On Abdulrazak Gurnah: Belonging, Colonialism, Arrival - 2018 event

       For profiles and Q & As by Gurnah, see, for example:

• Abdulrazak Gurnah on Afterlives and Colonial Hypocrisy at The London Magazine
• "Arriving at writing": A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah at Postcolonial Text
• Q & A at Big Issue North
• Q & A at the Orwell Foundation

       For information about and coverage of his books, see, for example

• Reviews of his books at The New York Times
• Reviews of his books at Publishers Weekly
• Reviews of his books at Kirkus Reviews
• 5 books to start you off with Nobel Prize Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah by Anderson Tepper at The Los Angeles Times
• Abdulrazak Gurnah at Bloomsbury

       Early coverage of his Nobel win includes:

• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature by Alison Flood in The Guardian
• Nobel Literature Prize 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah named winner at the BBC

       (Updated - 8 October): See now also:

• Why Did Abdulrazak Gurnah Win the Nobel Prize in Literature ? by Alex Shephard at The New Republic
• Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literatureby John Maher at Publishers Weekly
• Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature by Sian Bayley at The Bookseller

       Particularly striking is how poorly Gurnah has sold in the United States -- "his books have, per the journalist Jane Friedman, sold only 3,000 copies in the United States -- total", Shephard notes, and: "according to NPD BookScan, his best-selling book in the U.S., Desertion, has sold under 2,000 copies at outlets that report to the service since the book's 2005 publication", Maher notes. It's not like his work hasn't gotten any attention -- The New York Times has reviewed six of his novels -- but they certainly do not seem to have found readers -- no wonder his latest, Afterlives, hasn't found a US publisher. 
       While some of his work has been translated, he also isn't particularly widely translated, and most of his work does not appear to be readily available (i.e. in print) in any other language; the US/UK media always jokes about all the obscure foreign-language-writing winners of the Nobel, but outside the UK Gurnah seems to be one of the least-read winners in recent memory.