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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 Nigeria's Wole Soyinka, who won in 1986. His novels include Paradise , which is set in colonial East Africa during the First Wo...

STOCKHOLM: Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writings on post-colonialism and the trauma...

Gurnah welcomed the Nobel Prize as sparking greater discussion of the issues he raises in his novels, such as the plight of refugees and colonialism

Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in literature

U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of crossing continents and cultures has fed his novels about the impact of migration on individuals and societies, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.