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Abdulzarak Gurnah’s new novel Theft is his first since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021.
Like many of his novels, the story takes place in Zanzibar, the island of his birth, and is a coming-of-age story, told against rapid post-independence change.
Abdulrazak is Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent and the author of ten previous novels, including Afterlives, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Washington Post and TIME magazine.
He was midway through writing Theft when he heard about his Nobel Prize win, and he joins Saturday Morning to relay what impact this had on the process.
