Nobel Prize

more

Interview, April 2022 https://www.youtube.com/embed/gu1TqDhnLlw “There are certain moments I think that never, never go away” Carin Klaesson, Content Manager of Public Programs at the Nobel Prize Museum, sat down to talk to 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden on 28 April 2022. In a wide ranging conversation they spoke…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sFJujtGULXg Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 to Abdulrazak Gurnah, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 7 October 2021. After the announcement Anders Olsson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, presented the laureate in Swedish and English and answered questions from the audience.

Links to other sites Nobel Prize lessons Book tips

English Biobibliography Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean but arrived in England as a refugee in the end of the 1960s. After the peaceful liberation from British colonial rule in December 1963 Zanzibar went through a revolution which, under President Abeid Karume’s regime,…

Swedish Biobibliografi Abdulrazak Gurnah är född 1948 och uppvuxen på ön Zanzibar i Indiska oceanen men kom redan i slutet av 1960-talet som flykting till England. Efter den fredliga frigörelsen från det brittiska kolonialväldet i december 1963 uppstod på Zanzibar en revolution som, under president Abeid Karumes regim, ledde till förtryck och förföljelse av medborgare…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 7 October 2021   The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar and active in England, “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the…

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 7 oktober 2021   Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2021 tilldelas romanförfattaren Abdulrazak Gurnah, född på Zanzibar och verksam i England, ”för att kompromisslöst och med stor medkänsla ha genomlyst kolonialismens verkningar och flyktingens öde i klyftan mellan kulturer och kontinenter”.

more

more