Nobel Literature Prize 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah named winner – BBC Information
The winner of this 12 months’s Nobel Prize for Literature says he thought the telephone name telling him he’d received was a chilly caller.
Fortunately, Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was persuaded to not hold up.
The Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the consequences of colonialism”.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is value 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000).
Gurnah, 73, is the writer of 10 novels, together with Paradise and Desertion.
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