Anders Olsson, the chair of the committee that awarded the prize, said the figures in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s tales are caught “between the life left behind and the life to come”
the Swedish Academy awarded Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian writer based in Britain, the Nobel prize in Literature for 2021 for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. He became the first black African writer to win the accolade since Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian novelist and playwright, in 1986.
His novels and short stories are populated with characters who are buffeted by history, conflict, family strife and communal upheaval. Anders Olsson, the chair of the committee that awards the prize, said the figures in Mr Gurnah’s tales are caught “between the life left behind and the life to come, confronting racism and prejudice, but also compelling themselves to silence the truth or reinventing biography to avoid conflict with reality”.
His exile made him acutely aware of the challenges faced by people who are forced to leave home and create new lives for themselves. He has been a mentor to generations of young writers, such as Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, a Kenyan author now based in Berlin, and Nadifa Mohamed, a British-Somali writer whose novel, “The Fortune Men”, is on the shortlist for this year’s Booker prize.
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