Abdulrazak Gurnah, posing from his home in Canterbury, England, following the Nobel Prize announcement
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Date 08.10.2021Annabelle Steffes-Halmer
Two writers from sub-Saharan Africa are honored with prestigious literary prizes this month.
Abdulrazak Gurnah, an author who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in Britain since the late 1960s, is this year's Nobel Prize for Literature laureate. His award brings the total number of laureates from sub-Saharan Africa to receive the prestigious prize to four.