The Nobel Prize in literature goes to a Black writer for the first time since 1993
The Zanzibar-born novelist is known for his postcolonial works, examining refugee life in England and the effects of empire. He is the first Black person awarded the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993
Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won this year's Nobel Prize in literature.
"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 Swedish Academy announced Thursday morning.
The award comes with
