Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
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. The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.” Gurnah, who recently retired as a professor of … Continue reading Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
