Nobel laureate Gurnah receives his prize in London

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(6 Dec 2021) Nobel Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah on Monday received his 2021 prize at a lunchtime ceremony at the Swedish ambassador's residence in London. • The UK-based Tanzanian author was awarded the Nobel Prize in October for novels that explore the impact of migration on individuals and societies. • Gurnah grew up on the island of Zanzibar and arrived in England as an 18-year-old refugee in the 1960s. • He has drawn on his experiences for 10 novels, including Memory of Departure , Pilgrims Way , Afterlives and Paradise . • He has said migration is not just my story - it's a phenomenon of our times . • For a second year, the coronavirus scuttled the traditional formal banquet in Stockholm attended by winners of the prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and economics. • The winners of the 2021 Prizes will start receiving their awards in scaled-down local ceremonies adapted for pandemic times on Monday. • Later on Monday, Italian physics laureate Giorgio Parisi is due to receive his prize at a ceremony in Rome. • US-based physics laureate Syukuro Manabe, chemistry laureate David W.C. MacMillan and economic sciences laureate Joshua D. Angrist will be given their medals and diplomas in Washington. • More ceremonies will be held throughout the week in Germany and the United States. • On Friday - the anniversary of the death of prize founder Albert Nobel - there will be a celebratory ceremony at Stockholm City Hall for a local audience, which will include King Carl XVI Gustav and senior Swedish royals. • The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo because Nobel wanted it that way, for reasons he kept to himself. • A ceremony is due to be held there on Friday for the winners, journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia. • A Nobel Prize comes with a diploma, a gold medal and a 10-milion krona ($1.15 million) cash award, which is shared if there are multiple winners. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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