Abdulrazak Gurnah

Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.