Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for his 'uncompromising and passionate' portrayals of the effects of colonialism
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his"uncompromising and passionate" portrayals of the effects of colonialism.
His 1994 novel"Paradise," which told the story of a boy growing up in Tanzania in the early 20th century, won the Booker Prize and marked his breakthrough as a novelist. His 2001 book"By the Sea" follows a refugee living in a British seaside town. And his most recent work,"Afterlives," picks up the narrative of"Paradise" and takes place during the German colonization of Africa.
The committee's decision to recognize a writer whose works tackle the themes of displacement, asylum and migration comes amid a years-long migrant crisis in Europe that has"I don't think the acute situation right now in Europe and around the Mediterranean has affected this prize because the phenomenon of exile and migration has been there for many years," Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel literature committee, told reporters after the award was announced on Thursday.
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