Nobel Prize in Literature 2021: Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2021: Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the prize for his compassionate description of the “effects of colonialism” and the fate of refugees in the gap between cultures and continents.
Who is Abdulrazak Gurnah?
Abdulrazaq Gurnah was born in the year 1948. He grew up on the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean. He later arrived in England as a refugee in the 1960s. He worked as Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has published 10 novels and several short stories.
His work revolves around the topic of refugee disruption. Even though Swahili was his first language, he made English his literary device.
2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to American poet Lewis Gluck, who is a professor of English at Yale University. He was honored for his unmistakable poetic voice
