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.

[Heikki R]

A newspaper interviewed Tua Forsström, the one Finnish member of the
Swedish Academy, after Gurnah's win. She was asked which of Gurnah's novels
the uninitiated should start with.

"Paradise is a fantastic novel.  Go and get it immediately. In addition, I
want to highlight two other novels, namely By the Sea and Gravel Heart."
In the interview, Forsström considers The Last Gift (2014) a minor work.
"But for an author with Abdulrazak Gurnah's literary qualities, even a
minor work is brilliant."

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:05 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles Finch
> @CharlesFinch
> <https://mobile.twitter.com/CharlesFinch>
> ·
> 31m <https://mobile.twitter.com/CharlesFinch/status/1446143317423505408>
> 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/>
> >
> >
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