Nobel Prize for Literature 2021: Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded 2021 literature prize

Nobel Prize for Literature 2021: Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded 2021 literature prize

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Category : Awards Published on: October 08 2021

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  • The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 has been awarded to novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.
  • The award was given to the Tanzanian-born, UK-based author "for his unwavering and compassionate exploration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."
  • The Nobel Prize in Literature is given annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work in the field of literature in an idealistic direction.
  • The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to American poet Louise Gluck for her unmistakable poetic voice, which makes individual existence universal with austere beauty.

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About The Nobel Prize Winner of India 

  • Rabindranath Tagore – Nobel Prize for Literature (1913)
  • CV Raman – Nobel Prize for Physics (1930)
  • Har Gobind Khurana – Nobel Prize for Medicine (1968)
  • Mother Teresa – Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – Nobel Prize for Physics (1983)
  • Amartya Sen – Nobel Prize for Economics (1998)
  • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
  • Kailash Satyarthi – Nobel Peace Prize (2014)
  • Abhijit Banerjee – Nobel Prize for Economics (2019)
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