Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and 1.14 million US dollars. The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism."

Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and based in England. He is a professor at the University of Kent. He wrote 10 novels, including "Paradise," which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994.