Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism”.
- The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m).
- Gurnah, 73, is the author of 10 novels, including Paradise and Desertion.
- His novel Paradise, published in 1994, told the story of a boy growing up in Tanzania in the early 20th Century and was nominated for the Booker Prize, marking his breakthrough as a novelist.
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