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Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Samia Suluhu Hassan has congratulated Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who scooped 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.<\/p>\n

On her congratulatory message to the Tanzanian icon born in the Isles, the President said the prestigious award scooped by the novelist was the honour to both Tanzania and Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations Mr. Abdulrazak Gurnah for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. This award is an honor to you, our Nation of Tanzania and Africa,\u201d President Samia tweeted.<\/p>\n

The Novelist, Abdulrazak Gurnah was granted the award on Thursday by the Swedish Academy which is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14 million) equal to 2.6bn\/-.<\/p>\n

The English Professor has succeeded to write 10 novels and several short stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Tanzania. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has congratulated Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who scooped 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. On her congratulatory message to the Tanzanian icon born in the Isles, the President said the prestigious award scooped by the novelist was the honour to both Tanzania and Africa. \u201cCongratulations Mr. Abdulrazak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-38313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"\nPresident Samia congratulates Tanzanian novelist for winning \u00a0Nobel Prize - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Samia Suluhu Hassan has congratulated Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who scooped 2021 Nobel Prize for Li ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Samia congratulates Tanzanian novelist for winning \u00a0Nobel Prize\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Samia Suluhu Hassan has congratulated Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who scooped 2021 Nobel Prize for Li ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-08T17:40:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/img-6160606aa8527.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"606\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"President Samia congratulates Tanzanian novelist for winning \u00a0Nobel Prize\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-08T17:40:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize\"},\"wordCount\":124,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/img-6160606aa8527.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/president-samia-congratulates-tanzanian-novelist-for-winning-nobel-prize\",\"name\":\"President Samia congratulates Tanzanian novelist for winning \u00a0Nobel Prize - 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