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Newshour: 07/10/2021 13:06 GMT: Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

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Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

07/10/2021 13:06 GMT

07/10/2021 13:06 GMT: Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

BBC World Service - Newshour, Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

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The Tanzanian writer, Abdulrazak Gurnah, has won this year's Nobel Prize for literature. He is best known for his novels 'Paradise' and 'By the Sea'. We spoke to him minutes after he had heard the news from the Swedish Academy. He is the first black African writer to win the prize since 1986; we will look at the significance of this accolade.

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(Photo: Abdulrazak Gurnah. Credit: Getty Images)

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