Tanzania

He is the first Black writer in 28 years, the second Black African, and the first East African laureate in literature. Here are the Tanzanian’s 10 novels.

In awarding the Tanzanian novelist, short story writer, critic, and former academic, the Swedish Academy recommends these.

The prolific 73-year-old, whose latest is the novel Afterlives, has been awarded “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”

It is the 10th novel by the Tanzanian author, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996.