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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