Nobel laureate
Abdulrazak Gurnah — Nobel Prize in Literature 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”
Prize motivation
“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 awarded Abdulrazak Gurnah the 2021 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.
Other laureates of the 2020s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).