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UK-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals.

Gurnah. Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah whose work touches on colonialism and refugee life on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize the Swedish Academy said. Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar Africa. Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.

Gurnah who grew up. He began to write in English as a 21-year-old refugee in England although Kiswahili is his first language. The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the.

Gurnahs fourth novel Paradise was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1994 and his sixth By the Sea was longlisted in 2001. Gurnah is the first black writer to win since Toni Morrison in 1993. Leonardo CendamoGetty Images hide.

Gurnah 72 won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and. Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature the Swedish Academy announced here on Thursday. Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been announced as the winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for literature.

Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the first Black person to win the prize since Toni.

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he was surprised and humbled to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. Books by Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah are on display at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm after the author was announced as the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature on Oct. Gurnah has published 10 novels including his most recent Afterlives and Paradise By the Sea alongside a handful of short stories.

Mr Gurnah was born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar which over the centuries has been a centre of the Indian Oceans slave trade a warehouse for the. Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah gestures as he poses for a photo at his home in Canterbury England Thursday Oct. Gurnah was awarded the.

Gurnah has written 10 novels including Paradise which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents Prize share. The Tanzanian UK-based author won for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of.

Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature the award-giving body said. The prestigious prize was awarded on Thursday by. Just like Paradise it is set at the beginning of the 20th century briefly before the end of the.

His first novel Memory of. Gurnahs fourth novel Paradise 1994 his breakthrough as a writer evolved from a research trip to East Africa around 1990. Abdulrazak Gurnah has won this years Nobel Prize in literature.

The judges commended his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of. He emigrated to Britain as a student at the age of 20 and went on to become Professor and Director of Graduate studies at the. The prize has been awarded to novelist 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 Swedish Academy said.

In this interview from 2017 the novelist discussed leaving Zanzibar for Britain. STOCKHOLM Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate. He left Zanzibar at age 18 as a refugee after a violent 1964 uprising in which soldiers.

Gurnah was born in Zanzibar which is now part of Tanzania in 1948 but he currently lives in Britain. Following the peaceful liberation from the UKs colonial rule in December 1963 when Zanzibar went through a revolution under the regime of President Abeid Karume it led to the oppression and persecution of citizens of Arab origin. The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.

It is a coming of age account and a sad love story in which. Gurnah was born on one of Zanzibars islands and came to England as a refugee in the 1960s. Mr Gurnah whose novels include Paradise and Desertion writes in English and now lives in.

Gurnah was forced to flee the country when he was 18.

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