Tanzanian novelist Gurnah wins Nobel Prize in literature

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won this year's Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said.Gurnah, who was born on the island of Zanzibar in 1948 and arrived in England as a refugee in his youth, was honored for "his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents," the academy said.Gurnah, who was a professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent in Canterbury before his retirement, has published 10 novels as well as a number of short stor…READ FULL ARTICLE