Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel prize for literature
Sakshi Education
Tanzanian Novelist AbdulrazakGurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugees in the gulf between cultures and continents. The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy of Stockholm, Sweden.
Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel prize for literature
AbdulrazakGurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania in the Indian Ocean but reached England as a refugee at the end of the 1960’s. Until recently, he was Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury. 73 year old Gurnah has published ten novels, including Paradise and Desertion and a number of short stories.
The theme of the refugee’s disruption runs throughout AbdulrazakGurnah's work. He began writing as a 21-year-old in English exile, and although Swahili was his first language, English became his literary tool.
