Day: 8 October 2021

Chimamanda Adichie, a celebrated Nigerian author and novelist may not win the coveted Nobel Prize for literature now or in the nearest future because she is considered “probably too young.”   A Swedish literary critic Jonas Thente said he hopes that Nigerian author, Adichie is awarded a Nobel Prize in October 2021. Thente, a literary editor and critic at Dagens Nyheter in Sweden, however, said he fears that the 44-year-old Adichie is “probably too young” to be awarded a Nobel Laureate. The youngest laureate to date was Rudyard Kipling, who…

Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writings on post-colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s, is the fifth African to win the Nobel Literature Prize. The Swedish Academy said Gurnah was honoured “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” “His novels recoil from…