Tanzanian scribe Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, said on Thursday it was just stupendous to win the prize and that he was recognize to be recognised with an award that has been given to such a huge list of accomplished scribes.
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"I suppose it's just brilliant and stupendous,"Gurnah told Reuters when asked how he felt to win the prize."I'm really obliged to the Swedish Academy for nominating me and my work."
"It's just great-it's just a big prize, and such a huge list of fabulous penmen-I'm still taking it in,"he said.
"It was such a complete surprise that I really had to bide until I heard it promulgated before I could believe it."
The prolocutor of the Nobel Committee for Literature said he's one of the world's most well- knownpost-colonial scribes.
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Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.
He was awarded"for his inflexible and compassionate penetration of the paraphernalia of colonialism and the fate of the exile in the gulf between lives and mainlands", said the Nobel award commission in a statement.
The prize is a gold medallion and 10 million Swedish kronor ( much Rs8.5 crore).
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Born in 1948, on the isle of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, the litterateur had arrived in England as a émigré in the end of the 1960s. He has 10 novels and a number of short stories to his credit.
"The theme of the émigré's derangement runs throughout his work," said the Nobel commission.
The chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, Anders Olsson, described him as one of the world's most well- knownpost-colonial authors, reported AP.
"Gurnah has ever and with great compassion, accessed the chattels of colonialism in East Africa and its chattels on the lives of extracted and migrating commodities,"Olsson said at a news conference, according to The New York Times.
The posting came a day after German scientist Benjamin List and British scientist David WC MacMillan were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing"asymmetric organocatalysis"-a tool to raise scruples.
Anteriorly this week, American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were given the Nobel Prize for remedy for their discovery of receptors that allow humans to feel temperature and touch.
On Tuesday, scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi took the Nobel Prize for remedies for their philanthropy to complex systems to study climate wisdom.
In 2020, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to American versifier Louise Glück.
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