Tanzanian writer awarded Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature connected Thursday for works that research the legacies of imperialism connected uprooted individuals.

The Swedish Academy said the grant was successful designation of his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the destiny of the exile successful the gulf betwixt cultures and continents”

Born successful Zanzibar successful 1948 and based successful England, Gurnah is simply a prof astatine the University of Kent. He is the writer of 10 novels, including “Paradise,” which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize successful 1994.

Anders Olsson, president of the Nobel Committee for literature, called him “one of the world’s astir salient post-colonial writers.”

The prestigious grant comes with a golden medal and 10 cardinal Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million). The prize wealth comes from a bequest near by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died successful 1895.

Last year’s prize went to American writer Louise Glück for what the judges described arsenic her “unmistakable poetic dependable that with austere quality makes idiosyncratic beingness universal.”

Glück was a fashionable prime aft respective years of controversy. In 2018 the grant was postponed aft enactment maltreatment allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, the secretive assemblage that chooses the winners. The awarding of the 2019 prize to Austrian writer Peter Handke caused protests due to the fact that of his beardown enactment for the Serbs during the 1990s Balkan wars.

On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize successful physiology oregon medicine to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into however the quality assemblage perceives somesthesia and touch.

The Nobel Prize successful physics was awarded Tuesday to 3 scientists whose enactment recovered bid successful seeming disorder, helping to explicate and foretell analyzable forces of nature, including expanding our knowing of clime change.

Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan were named arsenic laureates of the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for uncovering an easier and environmentally cleaner mode to physique molecules that tin beryllium utilized to marque compounds, including medicines and pesticides.

Still to travel are prizes for outstanding enactment successful the fields of bid and economics.