Abdulrazak Gurnah is this year's Nobel lit prize winner
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On displacement and identity
The Nobel prize for literature this year has gone to Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah,whose works explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals.
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Paradise, Afterlives
Gurnah's 10 novels include "Paradise" "Afterlives" and "Desertion". Paradise (1994) was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize. His By the Sea (2001) was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
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Came to Britain as a student
Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and came to Britain as a student in 1968. He now lives there and teaches literature at the University of Kent. He writes in English. The Swedish Academy said they recognised his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".
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Writers from diverse cultures
Past winners of this prestigious prize include Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, VS Naipaul, Pablo Neruda and Rabindranath Tagore. Though the Academy has crowned mostly Westerners over the past 120 years, Nobel watchers had predicted this time that the prize could go to a writer from Africa or Asia.
In pic: Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In pic: Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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More than the prize money
The winner takes home $1.14 million. But more priceless is the prestige, and the surge in book sales with readers across several countries getting familiar with the works of the winner.