Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM — Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Swedish Academy said Thursday the grant was successful designation of his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism.”

Born successful Zanzibar successful 1948 and based successful England, Gurnah is simply a prof astatine the University of Kent. He is the writer of 10 novels, including “Paradise,” which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize successful 1994.

Anders Olsson, president of the Nobel Committee for Literature, called him “one of the world’s astir salient post-colonial writers.”

The prestigious grant comes with a golden medal and 10 cardinal Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million).

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature went to American writer Louise Glück for what the judges described arsenic her “unmistakable poetic dependable that with austere quality makes idiosyncratic beingness universal.”