Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

• Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian novelist has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. Abdulrazak Gurnah writes in English and is based in the United Kingdom.
• He has been felicitated for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugees in the gulf between cultures and continents.
• The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden.
• The prize money for the award is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14 million).

Source: Nobel Prize