Via: Onmanorama

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees,” the award-winning body said on Thursday. Based in Britain, Gurnah is the first African writer to win the award since Zimbabwean Doris Lessing in 2007 and only the second black writer from sub-Saharan Africa after Nigerian Wole Soyinka, who won in 1986. His novels include “Paradise”, set in colonial East Africa during World War I and was selected for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and “Desertion”.

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