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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Literature2021(1)

Motivation

"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 Nobel Prize in Literature

Prize Amount: SEK 10,000,000 (adjusted: SEK 12,096,939)

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Personal Information

Full Name:

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Gender:

male

Born:

1948-00-00

Nobel Prizes

Literature2021

for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents

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