The 2021 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded Thursday to Tanzanian novelist Abulrazak Gurnah.
"The 2021 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the novelist 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," the official Twitter account of the Nobel Prize said.