Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah from Tanzania, Africa has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Swedish Academy said that Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his works that talk about the effects of colonialism, especially on refugees who have had to change their homelands.
Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, called him “one of the world’s most prominent post-colonial writers”. Postcolonial literature is a type of literature by people from countries that have been colonised (for example, India).
Nobel Prize in Literature awardee Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania in 1948. But he moved to England as a refugee in the 1960s. Currently, he lives in England and works as a professor at the University of Kent. He has written 10 novels till now. And his most famous novel is Paradise. Paradise was one of the books shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994 but it did not win.
Tomorrow, they will announce this year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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