Zanzibar Author Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The writer, who is active in England, will receive a $1.1 million prize.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 17: Abdulrazak Gurnah attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 17, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Photographer: Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images EuropeNovelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature.
The Zanzibar-born author won the award for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continent,” the Swedish Academy said in a statement on Thursday.