Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah

Nobel Prize in Literature, Awarded to Novelist, Abdulrazak Gurnah.

NPR reports that this year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.

[The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah] for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents, Swedish Academy, via NPR.

The author was born in 1948 in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now part of modern-day Tanzania.

The author was born in 1948 in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now part of modern-day Tanzania.

He worked as a professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

He worked as a professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

He has written 10 novels, including 1994's 'Paradise,' which the Swedish Academy cited in naming Gurnah this year's winner.

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He has written 10 novels, including 1994's 'Paradise,' which the Swedish Academy cited in naming Gurnah this year's winner.

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Gurnah's writing, including 'Paradise,' rebels against previous Western perceptions of Africa, such as in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness.'.

Gurnah's writing, including 'Paradise,' rebels against previous Western perceptions of Africa, such as in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness.'.

Other Nobel Prizes awarded so far this week include:.

Nobel Prize in Medicine - David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their work in touch and temperature.

Nobel Prize in Medicine - David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their work in touch and temperature.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Benjamin List and David Macmillan's for their research in building chemicals.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Benjamin List and David Macmillan's for their research in building chemicals.

The Nobel Prize in Physics was split.

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann won for their studies in climate change, .

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann won for their studies in climate change, .

And Giorgio Parisi won for his work examining patterns in materials.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 8