The Penguin Random House label directed by Sigrid Krauss has acquired the copyrights of the Tanzanian writer, which have been available in our language for several years.

The first novels to hit bookstores will be 'By the Sea' and 'Paradise', available by the end of this year and the beginning of 2022.

When the Swedish Academy announced the name of this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 7, very few had heard of Abdulrazak Gurnah (Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1948) and even fewer had read the work of the Tanzanian-born writer. Except in the United Kingdom, where Gurnah has lived since the late 1960s, his books have crossed few borders, even on the African continent, where he was born and today celebrates him.

In the United States, for example, his latest novel, 'Afterlives', published in 2020, sold around 3,000 copies. And in Spain all his books are out of print. In fact, the rights in Spanish to his work have been available for more than a decade.

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