{"id":139917,"date":"2021-10-08T20:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=139917"},"modified":"2021-10-16T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T11:16:32","slug":"explained-importance-of-nobel-winner-abdulrazak-gurnahs-writing-in-highlighting-the-refugee-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-importance-of-nobel-winner-abdulrazak-gurnahs-writing-in-highlighting-the-refugee-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Importance of Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah\u2019s writing in highlighting the refugee experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the news?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

This year\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Nobel Prize for Literature<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is awarded to \u201c<\/span>Abdulrazak\u00a0Gurnah<\/span><\/b>\u201d, who was born in Zanzibar and now lives in the UK.<\/span> He became the fifth African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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About Gurnah\u2019s work<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n

He is the author of 10 novels and several short stories and essays. These include \u201cDesertion\u201d and \u201cParadise\u201d(shortlisted for the Booker prize).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Theme <\/span><\/b>of his works mostly dealt with \u2018immigrant experience and how exile and loss, shape identities and cultures\u2019.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What is the significance of his work in the contemporary world?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

At a time when the\u00a0<\/span>global refugee crisis<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is exponentially on the rise,\u00a0Gurnah\u2019s\u00a0work draws attention to how\u00a0racism and prejudice\u00a0against targeted communities and religions perpetuate cultures of oppression.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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About the Nobel Prize in literature<\/strong><\/h5>\n

It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. The Nobel Prize in literature<\/span><\/b> is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country.<\/span> The award is based on an author’s body of work as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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