African Arguments Interviews Our MD Mkuki Bgoya
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
Translated by Ida Hadjivayanis
A Nobel Prize-winning novel
now available in Kiswahili
Peter Singer
Deogratius Simba (Mfasiri)
“Kama nisingekuwa na budi kuchagua kitabu kilichoniletea mabadiliko makubwa, basi ningesema ‘Ukombozi wa Wanyama’ cha Peter Singer.”
— Jane Goodall
Author Experience
Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. This is a Swahili translation of his 1994 novel, Paradise. The translator is Ida Hadjivayanis, Senior Lecturer in Swahili Studies, SOAS University of London.
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili.
Our founder Mr. Walter Bgoya and Ms. Mary Jay of African Books Collective have received the ASAUK Outstanding African Studies Award 2024.
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