Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah 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.
Though Swahili was his first language, English became Gurnah's literary tool when he began writing at the age of 21.
This was the second straight year that the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to a writer in English, and the fourth of the last six, an unusually long stretch for the prize to be dominated by a single language."When many of these people who come, come out of both need, and also because, quite frankly, they have something to give," he said."They don't come empty-handed. A lot of them are talented, energetic people who have something to give.
"In one of his novels he describes the memory of the exile as being 'a dim, gutted warehouse with rotting planks and rusted ladders where you spend time rifling through abandoned goods,'" Morey said.
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