Nobel Literature Prize 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah named winner

 


Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he was "astounded and lowered" to be granted the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. 

The Swedish Academy applauded Gurnah for his "solid and caring infiltration of the impacts of expansionism". 

The prize is granted by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m/£840,000). 

Gurnah, 73, is the creator of 10 books, including Paradise and Desertion.


'Commitment to truth' 

Paradise, distributed in 1994, recounted the account of a kid experiencing childhood in Tanzania in the mid twentieth Century and was assigned for the Booker Prize, denoting his forward leap as a writer. 

"Abdulrazak Gurnah's devotion to truth and his antipathy for rearrangements are striking," the Nobel Committee for Literature said in an assertion. 

"His books pull back from cliché portrayals and open our look to a socially broadened East Africa new to numerous in different regions of the planet." 

"[His] characters wind up in a rest among societies and landmasses, between a day to day existence that was and a day to day existence arising; a shaky state can never be settled."

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