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Abdulrazak Gurnah is the SIXTH African writer to have won the Nobel Prize in literature. Others include Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer, JM Coetzee and Doris Lessing. 1/
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the SIXTH African writer to have won the Nobel Prize in literature. Others include Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer, JM Coetzee and Doris Lessing. 1/
There's tidy alignment b/w ascendancy of multiculturalism movements in Europe and recipients of the LitNobel. Soyinka, Mahfouz, Gordimer, Walcott, Morrison & Ōe won successively from 1986-1994. For a brief 8 years, LitNobel was diverse, political, progressive, with-it. 2/
tbh, 2000-2012 were pretty good years too as the Nobel prize committee took literary journeys through China, Trinidad, Peru, South Africa, Turkey, Zimbabwe...The almost-decade after that has been real white/Euro barring Ishiguro. 3/
