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Ni mwanafasihi Abdulrazak Gurnah
Source: Al jazeera
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Mwandishi kutoka Tanzania, Abdulrazak Gurnah ametangazwa kuwa mshindi wa Tuzo ya Nobel 2021 kwa upande wa Fasihi (Literature)
Gurnah ambaye anaishi England alizaliwa Zanzibar na ni Profesa wa Chuo Kikuu cha Kent. Ameandika riwaya (Novels) kadhaa zikiwemo "Paradise" na "Desertion"
Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature, the award-giving body said.
The prestigious prize was awarded on Thursday by the Swedish Academy, which cited Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee”.
Born in Zanzibar and based in England, Gurnah is a professor at the University of Kent. His novel “Paradise” was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994.
The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.14m).
Gurnah would have normally received the Nobel from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of scientist Alfred Nobel who created the prizes in his last will and testament.
But the in-person ceremony has been cancelled for the second straight year due to the pandemic and replaced with a televised ceremony showing the laureates receiving their awards in their home countries.
Of the 118 literature laureates since the first Nobel was awarded in 1901, 95 – or more than 80 percent – have been Europeans or North Americans.
Last year’s prize went to American poet Louise Gluck for what the judges described as her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
Gluck was a popular choice after several years of controversy. In 2018, the award was postponed after sex abuse allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, the secretive body that chooses the winners.
Source: Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in literature