Not Pynchon once again. (who it will never be) But another blow against empires. More refugees in the world than even at the end of WW2.

[Mark Kohut]

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My favorite thing about the Gurnah win is that he's a very funny writer
(subtly)

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 7:14 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
> Abdulrazak Gurnah
> <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/gurnah/facts/>
> The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak
> Gurnah <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/gurnah/facts/> “for
> his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of
> colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and
> continents”.
>
> Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar in the
> Indian Ocean but arrived in England as a refugee in the end of the 1960’s.
> He has published ten novels and a number of short stories. The theme of the
> refugee’s disruption runs throughout his work.
> Related articles
>
>    - Press release
>    <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/press-release/>
>    - Biobibliographical notes
>    <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/bio-bibliography/>
>
>