Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the selection of the Nobel Prize for Literature in a news conference on Thursday. Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah received the award for “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”

Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose novels ‘penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa’, has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee,’ the award-giving body said.

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Saini Borboruah By anyway any means Even if I become an Nobel Laureate all Nobel Laureates, all Nobel Boards, all Nobel members, All Nobel Words will be killed very soon for FOREVER, 630 days 24 hours physical and mental torture in Nobel Link. Delink Nobel link immediately. From Saini Borboruah.

Sant Prasad Gupta This award has given a bigger canvas to intellectuals to paint the struggles of refugees, gulf, post colonial challenges; specially Tanzanian and thus gives a new perspective of resolution of these issues.