MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte s office on Monday congratulated journalist Maria Ressa for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it a victory for a Filipina for which it was happy to see. Ressa, founder of Philippine news site Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov shared the 2021 prize https://www.reuters.com/world/philippines-journalist-ressa-russian-journalist-muratov-win-2021-nobel-peace-2021-10-08/?enowpopup after braving the wrath of the leaders of the Philippines and Russia to expose corruption and misrule. Ressa has been fighting multiple legal challenges in courts related to Rappler s dogged investigative reporting of Duterte s government, its bloody war on drugs, and its use of social media to target opponents. It is a victory for a Filipina and we are very happy for that, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque told a regular news conference, responding to a question on what the award meant for the government. Of course it is true there are individuals who feel
By Guy Faulconbridge and Natalie Thomas CANTERBURY, England (Reuters) -Europe should greet migrants with compassion rather than barbed wire and the British government is rather nasty about those who seek asylum, said Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Gurnah, who explored the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals in his books, said he was so shocked when he was phoned by the Swedish Academy to tell him of the prize that he thought it was a cold caller. Born in Zanzibar, now Tanzania, Gurnah moved to Britain as a student in 1968. His novels, the first published in 1987, have repeatedly portrayed displaced people - outsiders who are coming to terms with an identity in constant flux. He spoke poetically about the experience of migration - of leaving behind family and part of one s life for a life in a new society where one would always feel partly foreign. He said he felt the British government seemed nasty about those see