The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the Tanzanian novelist, Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Mr Gurnah, whose novels include "Paradise" and "Desertion", writes in English and now lives in the UK.
The Swedish Academy that awards the prize said it had based its decision on Mr Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".
It said the author's dedication to truth and aversion to simplification are striking and that Mr Gurhan's novels 'recoil from stereotypical descriptions' and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa, unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world.
Mr Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, but arrived in England as a refugee in the end of the 1960s.
He has published ten novels and a number of short stories, and the theme of the refugees disruption runs throughout his work.
Until his recent retirement, he was Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent in Canterbury.
