A photo of Abdulrazak Gurnah

BLACK WRITER WINS NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1993

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has become the first Black writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature since 1993, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Gurnah, who was born in Zanzibar and has written 10 novels, was recognized by the Nobel Prize judges, “For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the […]

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