The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Tanzanian-born writer Abdulrazak Gurn
Stockholm, Oct. 7, LETA – AFP / DPA. This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Tanzanian-born writer Abdulrazak Gurn, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.
Hurna writes in English and lives in Britain, and the award was given for “an uncompromising and compassionate insight into the consequences of colonialism and the fate of the refugee,” the academy said.
Gurn was born on the island of Zanzibar in 1948, but arrived in England in the late 1960s. He is a professor at the University of Kent.
He is the author of ten novels, including Paradise, which was shortlisted for the Bucker Prize in 1994.
Anders Olson, chairman of the Nobel Committee on Literature, described Gurn as “one of the world’s most prominent postcolonial writers.”
With the prize, Gurn is entitled to a cash prize of SEK 10 million (EUR 980,000).
Last year, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American poetess Louise Glick, who is known for her focus on childhood and family life.
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