Nobel in Literature: Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Prize
New Delhi: Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was on Thursday declared winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021.
Born in Zanzibar and based in England, Gurnah is a professor at the University of Kent. His novel “Paradise” was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994, media reports said.
The Swedish Academy awards the Prize, which carries a citation and cash worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14 million).
They selected him for the award “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents,” said the Swedish Academy in a statement.
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