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Abdulrazak Gurnah, a novelist, has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate exploration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”

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About Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar.  He arrived in England as a refugee in the 1960s and went on to become Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has published ten novels and a number of short stories, with his fourth novel, 'Paradise,' published in 1994, serving as his literary breakthrough. The novel is a coming-of-age account as well as a sad love story in which various worlds and belief systems collide.

His work has largely been around refugee disruption, with an emphasis on identity and self-image. With his blunt writing, he has purposefully defied convention. His novels defy stereotypes and provide a window into a culturally diverse East Africa that many people in other parts of the world are unfamiliar with. He began writing when he was 21 years old in English exile. Despite the fact that Swahili was his first language, his works are in English.

About Nobel Prize for Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is given annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work in the field of literature in an idealistic direction. The award is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 113 times to 117 Nobel laureates since 1901. Several poets, novelists, and songwriters have received the Nobel Prize in the past, including William Butler Yeats, Ernest Miller Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bob Dylan.

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