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Tanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948)

Also known as: Abd al-Razzaq Journa, Abdul Razzaq Gurnah, Abdulrazak S. Gurnah, Gurnah, Абдулразак Гурна, عبد الرزاق قرنح

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