Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah

Nobel Prize laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s.

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Until his recent retirement, he was a Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury.