2021 Nobel Prize Literature Winner Announced
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” The Tanzanian author, who now resides in the United Kingdom, is the author of 10 novels and as cited by the Academy “the theme of the refugee’s disruption runs throughout his work.” Born in 1948, Gurnah grew up on the island of Zanzibar, now part of Tanzania, but arrived in...