In 2021, the Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah joined the list of African writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature - **** in total. Born and raised in the semi-autonomous Tanzanian island, Zanzibar, Gurnah was the second Black African to receive the award, after the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka in 1986. Having fled persecution during Zanzibar's Revolution, and living in the United Kingdom since the , Gurnah has ** novels published as well as several short stories. His works are mainly focused on issues of identity, displacement, colonialism, and slavery.
The list of African novelists who received the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature also includes Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), Nadine Gordimer (South Africa), and J.M. Coetzee (South Africa).
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