“The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah ‘for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents,’” the Academy said.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Zanzibari novelist. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; Desertion (2005); and By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.