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Images of Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah's books in Stockholm after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021. Gurnah has published 10 novels and a number of short stories, and his work touches on colonialism and refugee life. IMAGES
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
Images of French author Annie Ernaux's books on display in Stockholm as she wins the Nobel Literature Prize. IMAGES
Mats Malm, Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy announces that French author Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Literature Prize "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." SOUNDBITE
British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, receives his medal in London from the Swedish ambassador to London Mikaela Kumlin Granit. IMAGES