Abdulrazak Gurnah
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The Nobel Prize medal and diploma were presented to literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Swedish Ambassador's Residence in London, UK on 6 December 2021.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah showing his Nobel Prize diploma.
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Like many Nobel Prize laureates before him, Abdulrazak Gurnah autographed a chair during his visit to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm in April 2022.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah donates a dictionary to the Nobel Prize Museum, 28 April 2022.
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Portrait of Abdulrazak Gurnah when visiting the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, in April 2022.
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Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah arriving at the Nobel Prize laureates' Get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2022.
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Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah and medicine laureate Ardem Patapoutian at the laureates' Get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2022.
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Laureates from 2020 and 2021 were also applauded during the 2022 Nobel Prize award ceremony. Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 2022.
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Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah and Professor Holly Ann Ingraham at the Nobel Prize banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 2022.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah was one of the speakers during the Nobel Week Dialogue on 9 December 2022.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah signs the Nobel Foundation's guest book, signed by the laureates since 1952, during his visit to the Nobel Foundation on 6 December 2022.
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Portrait of Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Photo: © Mark Pringle
Abdulrazak Gurnah lecturing.
Credit: University of Kent
Abdulrazak Gurnah, 2006.
Photographer: Dennis deCaires
Book tips
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