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Images of French author Annie Ernaux's books on display in Stockholm as she wins the Nobel Literature Prize. IMAGES
British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day", wins the Nobel Literature Prize. SOUNDBITE
The Swedish Academy announces Norway's Jon Fosse as this year's winner of the Nobel literature prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable", says Mats Malm, the academy's permanent secretary. SOUNDBITE
Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". SOUNDBITE
The Nobel Literature Prize goes to American poet Louise Gluck, the jury at the Swedish Academy announces. Gluck is honoured "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal," the Academy says. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.