Nobel Prize in Literature in the name of Tanzanian writer Abdul Razzaq Gorna:

This year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Abdul Razzaq Gorna, a Tanzanian-born British novelist. He is the first African writer to be nominated for the award in fourteen years.

Abdul Razzaq Gorna was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday, October 7. According to the jury, what is special about Gorna, now 72, as a novelist, is that his writings are very sympathetic and without any expediency, the effects of the colonial system and the fate of a refugee are greatly affected. How do they come together?

Gorna is the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize since Zimbabwean white author Doris Lessing was awarded the prize in 2007. He is also the second African-American author from sub-Saharan Africa to be awarded the prize since the 1986 Nobel Prize was awarded to Nigerian Vole Goenka.

The most famous novel 'Paradise'

One of the Tanzanian writers' most famous novels is Paradise, which tells the story of colonial East Africa during World War I. His novel was later shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.

Abdul Razzaq Gorna emigrated from Africa as a refugee in the 1960s, when the persecution of Arabs began in Zanzibar. Gorna grew up in Zanzibar at a time when revolutionary change had taken place there with the end of British colonial rule and the peaceful acquisition of independence.

Abdul Razzaq Gorna was only able to return to Zanzibar once in 1984 after emigrating from his native Tanzania when he was allowed to visit him shortly before his father's death.

Who was considered the strongest candidate?

It is generally considered very difficult to predict which poet, writer, or more than one literary figure will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. However, according to British bookmakers, before today's announcement, the literary figures who were most likely to receive the world's most prestigious literary award this year include Engogi wa Theungo from Kenya, Anne Erno from France and Japan. Prominent among them were Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood from Canada, and the anti-Guinness American writer Jamaica Kin Cad.

Award-winning literary figures of the last two years:

Last year, the award was given to American poet Louise Gluck, whose jury said that the highlight of Gluck's literary creations was that his poetry had a unique tone of its own. Even the individual existence of man becomes universal.

Prior to Louise Gluck, the 2019 Nobel Literature Prize was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke. Protests against the decision were also held in some countries because Handke openly supported Serbs during the Balkan wars in the 1990s.

Prize distribution in December:

This year, in addition to the Nobel Gold Medal, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded 10 million Swedish kronor, or about 14 1.14 million. If there is more than one Nobel laureate in a field, the prize money is distributed among them.

The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in six different categories. The names of the recipients are traditionally announced in early October, after which the awards are distributed in December each year.

The remaining two prizes this year:

This year's Nobel Prizes were announced on Monday, Monday in Physics, Tuesday in Chemistry, and Wednesday in Chemistry. Following the announcement of the jury for the Nobel Prize in Literature today, the names of the person or persons entitled to the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced tomorrow, Friday.

The awards will be announced last Monday when the names of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced.