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Tanzania: Nobel Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction Traces Small Lives With Wit and Tenderness
The Conversation Africa, 9 October 2021
For those of us who have read and reread, taught, and written about the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel Prize in Literature committee has confirmed what we knew all along.… Read more »
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Africa: Tanzania Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
allAfrica, 7 October 2021
Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of… Read more »
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Tanzania: 'You're Tanzania's Pride' President Mwinyi Tells Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah
Daily News, 13 October 2021
ZANZIBAR President Dr Hussein Mwinyi has praised the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah as the national pride, while welcoming the Tanzanian-born… Read more »
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Africa: Abdulrazak Gurnah - What You Need to Know About the Nobel Prize-Winning Author
The Conversation Africa, 7 October 2021
Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel prize for literature. The Tanzanian novelist, who is based in the UK, was awarded the prize for his "uncompromising and… Read more »
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Tanzania: Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
VOA, 7 October 2021
This year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his body of work detailing the refugee experience and how colonialism shaped… Read more »
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Tanzania: Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah - An Introduction to the Man and His Writing
The Conversation Africa, 7 October 2021
The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. This year… Read more »
Tanzanian Novelist Wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy, which chooses the winners, said it had chosen Tanzania's 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."
Gurnah has written 10 novels, many of which focus on the refugee experience. He is best known for his 1994 novel Paradise, set in colonial East Africa during World War I, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Gurnah is the fifth African to win the prestigious prize. Nigerian Wole Soyinka became the first African to win the prize in 1986, and it has been won by Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz and three South African writers - Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, and Doris Lessing, who was raised British-ruled Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and a U.S.$1.14 million. The prize money comes from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.
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Zanzibari novelist and 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah.
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