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Nobel Committee member Ellen Mattson delivering the presentation speech at Stockholm on December 10, 2021, said the following state about Gurnah: [18] "A story is told again and again in Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels. It concerns a boy who disappears or is kidnapped, sold, taken like Moses from the bulrushes, or is fleeing to save his life.
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born on 20 December 1948 [5] in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. [6] He left the island, which later became part of Tanzania, at the age of 18 following the overthrow of the ruling Arab elite in the Zanzibar Revolution, [3] [1] arriving in England in 1968 as a refugee.
Gurnah said it was ‘important’ for the Swedish Academy to highlight the themes mentioned in his work. Abdulrazak Gurnah ‘surprised and humbled’ by Nobel Prize for literature Skip to main ...
Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born on November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction.
Afterlives is a 2020 work of historical fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanjibar-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah.It was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 17 September 2020. [1]
Margaret Atwood does not fear the great unknown. The acclaimed novelist and poet, 84, was a guest on NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin podcast on Oct. 3. On the show, Martin invites guests to ...
In 2021 – the year when Tanzanian-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the prize – Committee member Ellen Mattson was asked about what criteria the Committee uses in selecting a laureate, she responded saying: "It's all about quality. Literary quality, of course. The winner needs to be someone who writes excellent literature.
The first black recipient, Ralph Bunche, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. W. Arthur Lewis became the first black recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979. The most recent black laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021.