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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
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
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
Dmitry Muratov, chief editor of Russia's leading independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, arrives to give a press statement after winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work in promoting freedom of expression. IMAGES
Minsk (Belarus), Sep 9 (EFE / EPA).- Belarusian Nobel Literature Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich asked journalists to come to her apartment in Minsk after unknown people called her phone and attempted to break into her house on Wednesday morning.FOOTAGE ANS SOUNDBITES OF SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH, TRANSLATION (FROM MIN: 00:00 TO 00:35):"We have to unite and not renounce our opinions and continue to advance in what we do. Of course, it is difficult...Hundreds of people are in (the detention centres of ) Okrestina, Izhoguina and who knows where, but their palace others appear and it will always be like that."