Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, Edinburgh, 7 October 2021
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Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has said it is "brilliant and wonderful" to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism".
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000).
Gurnah, 73, is the author of 10 novels, including Paradise and Desertion.
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