Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah's 바카라�uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.바카라�

Gurnah, who recently retired as a professor of post-colonial literature at the University of Kent, got the call from the Swedish Academy in the kitchen of his home in southeast England.

바카라�I'm absolutely excited," he told The Associated Press. 바카라�I just heard the news myself.바카라� Born in Zanzibar in 1948, Gurnah moved to Britain as a teenage refugee after an uprising on the Indian Ocean island in 1968.

He is the author of 10 novels, including 바카라�Memory of Departure,바카라� 바카라�Pilgrims Way,바카라� 바카라�Paradise바카라� 바카라� shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994 바카라� 바카라�By the Sea바카라� and 바카라�Desertion.바카라�

Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for literature, called him 바카라�one of the world's most prominent post-colonial writers." He said it was significant that Gurnah's roots are in Zanzibar, a place that 바카라�was cosmopolitan long before globalization bonus."

바카라�His work gives us a vivid and very precise picture of another Africa not so well known for many readers, a coastal area in and around the Indian Ocean marked by slavery and shifting forms of repression under different regimes and colonial powers: Portuguese, Indian, Arab, German and the British,바카라� Olsson said.

He said Gurnah's characters 바카라�find themselves in the gulf between cultures ... between the life left behind and the life to come, confronting racism and prejudice, but also compelling themselves to silence the truth or reinventing a biography to avoid conflict with reality.바카라�

Luca Prono said on the British Council website that in Gurnah's work, 바카라�identity is a matter of constant change.바카라� The academic said Gurnah's characters 바카라�unsettle the fixed identities of the people they encounter in the environments to where they migrate.바카라�

Gurnah, whose native language is Swahili but who writes in English, is only the sixth Africa-born writer to be awarded the Nobel for literature, which has been dominated by European and North American writers since it was founded in 1901. He is and the first Black African winner since Wole Soyinka in 1986.

Hamad Mbarouk Hamad, director of the Cultural Arts Center in Zanzibar, said he felt 바카라�proud바카라� at the news. But he said he had never read any of the writer's works.

바카라�He's famous for those who like to study. For everyday people, I don't think so," Hamad said.

The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million). The money comes from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.

Last year's prize went to American poet Louise Glück for what the judges described as her 바카라�unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.바카라�

Glück 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. The 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.

On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize in physiology or medicine to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch.

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to three scientists whose work found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.

Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan were named as laureates of the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for finding an easier and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make compounds, including medicines and pesticides.

Still to come are prizes for outstanding work in the fields of peace and economics. (AP)