The Swedish Academy announced the name of the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. This was reported on the official page of the award on Twitter.
The Tanzanian writer from Zanzibar, Abdulrazak Gurna, received the award.
It is noted that the award was awarded "for his uncompromising and compassionate insight into the consequences of colonialism and the fate of refugees in the gaps between cultures and continents."
Abdulrazak Gurna is a Tanzanian writer who writes in English. Lives in Great Britain. He was born on the island of Zanzibar in 1948 in a family of Muslims of Arab origin. In 1968, due to anti-Arab sentiments in Zanzibar, he moved to Great Britain, where he continued his studies.
From 1980 to 1982 he lectured at Bayero University in Nigeria. In 1982, he defended his doctoral degree at the University of Kent in Great Britain. In 1985, he was accepted as a teacher at his alma mater and taught a course of lectures devoted to post-colonial literature and the creativity of diaspora writers, primarily those from the British colonies in East Africa, India, and the Caribbean islands.
Currently, he is the head of graduate studies at the Department of English at the University of Kent as a professor.
Gurna is the author of the novels "Paradise" (1994), "At the Sea" (2001), "Desertion" (2005). His last work "Gravy heart" was published in 2017.
