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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
Italian theorist Giorgio Parisi, co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, receives his medal at a ceremony in Rome. He was awarded the prize for his work on the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems. 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
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus returns to Bangladesh to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. IMAGES
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who is to head an interim government in Bangladesh, tells reporters at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris that he is "looking forward to going back home" and helping his country "get out of the trouble we are in." IMAGES