Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah is the latest recipient of a Nobel Prize. On October 7, the Swedish Academy announced Gurnah the winner of the top prize in literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.
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Laureates (L-R) Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish and Kip S Thorne are pictured on a display during the announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in Physics on Oct. 3, 2017, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
