Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Prize in Literature

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The Nobel prize medal, presented to Charles M. Rice in Physiology or Medicine, is seen after Swedish Consul General Annika Rembe presented it to him at her residence on December 8, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Angela Weiss / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

(CNN Spanish) – The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.

  • The Nobel Prize for Literature, like that for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics, is usually awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • According to the official website of the international award, only two people declined the award. One of them is Jean-Paul Sartre, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. He did not accept it because he had systematically rejected all official honors.
  • Boris Pasternak, the 1958 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, initially accepted the Nobel Prize, but was later coerced by authorities in his native Soviet Union into rejecting the Nobel Prize, according to the official site of the Awards.
  • The Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate, since 1974, that a prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless death occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize. Before this regulation, only two people had been awarded the award posthumously. One of them was Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize in Literature 1931).

Latinos who received the Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Gabriela Mistral, Chile (1945)
  • Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala (1967)
  • Pablo Neruda, Chile (1971)
  • Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia (1982)
  • Octavio Paz, Mexico (1990)
  • Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru (2010)

Women who received the Nobel Prize in Literature

According to the official site of the international award, between 1901 and 2020, the Nobel Prize and the prize for economics have been awarded 57 times to women. Of that total, 16 women received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is the list:

2020 – Louise Glück

2018 – Olga Tokarczuk

2015 – Svetlana Alexievich

2013 – Alice munro

2009 – Herta Müller

2007 – Doris Lessing

2004 – Elfriede jelinek

nineteen ninety six – Wislawa Szymborska

1993 – Toni Morrison

1991 – Nadine gordimer

1966 – Nelly sachs

[1945- Gabriela Mistral

1938 – Pearl buck

1928 – Sigrid Undset

1926 – Grazia Deledda

1909 – Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf

Source: The Nobel Prize