Tag: Nobel Prize
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Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2021.
Abdulrazak Gurnah have been declared the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 today, October 7, 2021. The Nobel Prize was founded by Swedish businessman, chemist, engineer, inventor, and philanthropist Alfred Nobel. Every year since 1901, the prize is handed out in the categories of peace, chemistry, medicine, and literature. The African and Black…
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Nobel Prize 2016: We’re pining for a Nuruddin Farah win
October marks the announcement of the Nobel Prize for literature; this year we are pining for a Nuruddin Farah win. In 1901, five years after the death of Alfred Nobel, a new prize was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite…
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No ladies and gentlemen, Ngugi Didn’t win the Nobel Prize 2015
They have just announced the Nobel Prize for Literature and the winner this year is…. once again, despite unfounded rumours, most definitely NOT Ngugi. Its Svetlana Alexievich a Belarusian investigative journalist, ornithologist and prose writer. We can all wait for the speculation from the world media that you’d expect to ensue; On the African literature…