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

• 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)