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Abdulrazak Gurnah distils the precarious experience of the exile, the refugee and the asylum seeker into his novels. (Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images)

ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Nobel prize honours a self-effacing and unassuming talent

Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels

Idowu Omoyele