07/10/2021

Zojuist is bekendgemaakt dat Abdulrazak Gurnah de Nobelprijs voor literatuur 2021 krijgt. Deze Nobelprijs wordt toegekend door de Zweedse Academie in Stockholm. Er is geen enkel boek van hem verkrijgbaar in het Nederlands. In 1989 is zijn boek Herinneringen aan mijn zwarte rotjeugd vertaald in het Nederlands en in 1994 Paradijs. Het laatste boek stond eerder op de shortlist van de Booker Prize.

I dedicate this Nobel Prize to Africa and Africans and to all my readers. Thanks!

— Abdulrazak Gurnah (@GurnahAuthor) October 7, 2021

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” pic.twitter.com/zw2LBQSJ4j

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah has published ten novels and a number of short stories. The theme of the refugee’s disruption runs throughout his work. He began writing as a 21-year-old in English exile, and although Swahili was his first language, English became his literary tool.#NobelPrize

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2021