The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah whose novels deal with the violence, indignities and dislocations of colonialism and the refugee experience.
Gurnah was born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar, now part of Tanzania, but came as a refugee in the late 1960s to the UK where he now lives. The Swedish Academy praised him “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.
The award is the fifth time an African has won the prestigious literary prize, and the first time a black African author has won since the Nigerian novelist and playwright Wole Soyinka took the award in 1986.
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