Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins The Nobel Prize In Literature

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The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 has been announced.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Abdulrazak Gurnah for “his uncompromising and compassionate entry into the effects of colonialism and the fate of a refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.

Gurna was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania in 1948, but now lives in the UK. He is the first African to win the prize – considered one of the most prestigious in world literature – in nearly two decades.

He is fifth overall, behind Wole Soyinka of Nigeria in 1986, Naguib Mahfouz of Egypt, who won in 1988; and South African winners Nadine Gordimer in 1991 and John Maxwell Coetzee in 2003.

Gurna’s 10 novels include “Memory of Departure”, “Pilgrim’s Way” and “Dottie”, all of which deal with the immigrant experience in Britain; “Paradise,” shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, about a boy suffering from colonialism in an East African country; and “Admiring Silence” about a young man who leaves Zanzibar for England, where he marries and becomes a teacher.

Congratulations to the winner on a well-deserved award!

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Congratulations to the winner on a well-deserved award! 🏆

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