Updated October 7th, 2021 at 16:49 IST
Nobel Prize 2021 in Literature awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah started writing as a 21-year-old refugee and is known for his novels and short stories that run on the theme of the refugee’s disruption
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Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has bagged the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 7 "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents", announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Gurnah is known for his novels and a number of short stories that are themed around the refugee’s disruption. Although Gurnah has Swahili as his first language, he used English as a tool as he began writing as a 21-year-old refugee in English.
Nobel Prize 2021 in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah
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The 2021 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded 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.” pic.twitter.com/zw2LBQSJ4j
His fourth novel ‘Paradise’ (1994) is considered to be a breakthrough for his career as it is a coming of age account and a sad love story in which different worlds and belief systems collide. This creation of his is said to have evolved from a research trip to East Africa around 1990.
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Published October 7th, 2021 at 16:49 IST
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