Why Tanzanian Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Hardly Known Back Home
Subject
Nobel Prize; Literature; Tanzanian
Description
Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah became the most talked-about writer in the world when he won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, yet he is little known in Tanzania.
Creator
Priya Sippy
Source
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59178826
Publisher
bbc.com
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