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Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>TANZANIA writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals.<\/p>\n

The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of his \u201cuncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugees in the gulf between cultures and continents.\u201d Born in Zanzibar in 1948 and based in England, Gurnah is a professor at the University of Kent.<\/p>\n

He is the author of ten novels, including Paradise, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994. Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for literature, called him \u201cone of the world\u2019s most prominent post-colonial writers.\u201d The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (about 2.6bn\/-).<\/p>\n

The prize money comes from a bequest left by the prize\u2019s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896. Last year\u2019s prize went to American poet Louise Gluck for what the judges described as her \u201cunmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gluck was a popular choice after several years of controversy. In 2018 the award was postponed after sex abuse allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, the secretive body that chooses the winners.<\/p>\n

awarding of the 2019 prize to Austrian writer Peter Handke caused protests because of his strong support for the Serbs during the 1990s Balkan wars.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Committee awarded prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry earlier this week. Still to come are prizes for outstanding work in the fields of peace and economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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