LONDON, Dec 6 — British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah today received his medal as winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, in a brief ceremony held in London due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Since you cannot go to Stockholm, your Nobel Prize medal and diploma has been brought to you here today,” said Granit. The Swedish Academy said Gurnah was honoured “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.
He has also spoken out against Brexit and the “Windrush” scandal, which saw immigrants from the Caribbean targeted by the government in recent years despite moving to Britain legally in the 1950s and 1960s.
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