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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to 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" To cite this section MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024.
As of 2023, the Nobel Prize in Literature had been awarded to 120 individuals. 17 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. As of 2023, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 ...
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The winner was announced on October 7, 2021, by Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. He is the second black African writer to win the prize since 1986 laureate Wole Soyinka, and the 4th black writer since 1993 laureate Toni Morrison.
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Oct 12, 2021 · The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between...
Learn about the life and discoveries of Sir Alexander Fleming, the Nobel laureate who revolutionized medicine with penicillin.
Oct 7, 2021 · Abdulrazak Gurnah has won this year's Nobel Prize in literature. Gurnah has written 10 novels, including Paradise , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images...
Oct 31, 2019 · The Problem of Luck and its Significance. On place seven of their list of the “Top 10 Nobel Prize Controversies”, the TIME magazine mentions Alexander Fleming’s reception of the award in 1945 (Philipps 2011 ). In a short note, TIME’s author Jak Philipps points out that a similar type of antibiotic than the one described by Fleming in ...
