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His novels include “Paradise,” set in colonial East Africa during World War One and short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and “Desertion.”

By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee, the award-giving body said on Thursday. Based in Britain, Gurnah is the first African writer to win the award since the Zimbabwean Doris Lessing in 2007, and only the second writer of colour from sub-Saharan Africa, after Nigerias Wole Soyinka, who ...

Abdularazak Gurnah is the fourth author from sub-Saharan Africa to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Is the tide turning for African writers?

A short account of the celebrated anarchist Malatesta Club of 1950s London.

I am convinced that the Nobel Committee considers the prize to Africans tokenistic and therefore does little research on the deserving awardees.

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects

By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee, the award-giving body said on Thursday. Based in Britain, Gurnah is the first African writer to win the award since the Zimbabwean Doris Lessing in 2007, and only the second writer of colour from sub-Saharan Africa, after Nigerias Wole Soyinka, who ...

Tanzania's Abdulrazak Gurnah, novelist of colonialism and refuge, wins 2021 Nobel Stockholm, October 7 Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncom

Bob Dylan, Svetlana Alexievich, Orhan Pamuk and now Abdulrazak Gurnah: Here's a look back at the laureates of the prestigious literary award since 2001.

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Zanzibar-born novelist, Abdulrazak Gurnah. He is the first writer from the semi-autonomous island of Tanzania to win the prestigious award.