Africa: Tanzania Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

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Africa: Tanzania Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee", the award-giving body said on Thursday.

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