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Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded 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". SOUNDBITE
London, Oct 8 (EFE) .- Half a century after arriving to the UK to escape repression in Tanzania, Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature and considers it a platform to express to a wider audience recurring themes of his narrative such as forced migration and the inhumane treatment of refugees.(Camera: CLAUDIA SACREST)SHOT LIST: B-ROLL AND STATEMENTS BY 2021 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN LITERATURE ABDULRAZAK GURNAH IN LONDON, UK.
Images of Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah's books in Stockholm after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021. Gurnah has published 10 novels and a number of short stories, and his work touches on colonialism and refugee life. IMAGES
The Swedish Academy announces Norway's Jon Fosse as this year's winner of the Nobel literature prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable", says Mats Malm, the academy's permanent secretary. SOUNDBITE
Images of French author Annie Ernaux's books on display in Stockholm as she wins the Nobel Literature Prize. IMAGES
Mats Malm, Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy announces that French author Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Literature Prize "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." SOUNDBITE
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