Nobel Prize in Literature
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Retired British academic Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born in Tanzania, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 for his work exploring “the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee”
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114 Nobel Prizes in Literature awarded from 1901 to 2021

41 Age of the youngest laureate, Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book, who won in 1915

88 Age of oldest laureate, Doris Lessing, winner in 2007


RECENT LAUREATES
2020: Louise Glück, U.S.
2019: Peter Handke, Austria 2018: Olga Tokarczuk, Poland 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro, UK
2016: Bob Dylan, U.S.
2015: Svetlana Alexievich, Belarus

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