Few of Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels are sold in Tanzania where reading fiction is not popular.
Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah became the most talked-about writer in the world when he won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, yet he is little known in Tanzania.
Gurnah himself left his home aged around 18 - fleeing the turmoil and violence that followed the 1964 revolution which overthrew Zanzibar's Arab minority ruling elite.Often as East Africans, we see the world through other people's eyes. But with Gurnah, we can also see ourselves"Afterwards Zanzibar united with mainland Tanganyika to form Tanzania. The writer retains a strong connection to the island, which remains the backdrop for many of his stories.
"Following the revolution, the government closed several book clubs and libraries. Many excellent teachers left the country," says Ismail Jussa, a Zanzibari opposition politician. "We saw a huge gap in the publishing industry in Tanzania, which focuses solely on educational books. To address that we started producing and selling fiction, poetry and other literary works. Particularly works written by Tanzanians," says Mr Bgoya.Image caption,
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