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The Swedish Academy has awarded Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize for Literature, calling her work, "a monument to suffering and courage." Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
London, Oct 8 (EFE) .- Half a century after arriving to the UK to escape repression in Tanzania, Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature and considers it a platform to express to a wider audience recurring themes of his narrative such as forced migration and the inhumane treatment of refugees.(Camera: CLAUDIA SACREST)SHOT LIST: B-ROLL AND STATEMENTS BY 2021 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN LITERATURE ABDULRAZAK GURNAH IN LONDON, UK.
Images of Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah's books in Stockholm after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021. Gurnah has published 10 novels and a number of short stories, and his work touches on colonialism and refugee life. IMAGES
Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of life in the former Soviet Union, which the Swedish Academy said was "a monument to suffering and courage in our time". Katharine Jackson reports.
The Swedish Academy announces Norway's Jon Fosse as this year's winner of the Nobel literature prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable", says Mats Malm, the academy's permanent secretary. SOUNDBITE