Cover news reporter Li Yuxin
At 19:00 beijing time on October 7, the time for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature to "open the blind box" has arrived. That evening, the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-British immigrant writer. It is reported that the Swedish Academy gave the award comment: "His uncompromising and compassionate description of the fate of refugees in the gulf between the cultures of all continents".
It is understood that Gurna was born in 1948, lived in the United Kingdom all year round, and wrote in English. His representative works include the novel "Paradise" (Paradise) and "The Seaside". It is worth mentioning that although Gurna is a writer of African descent, he has always written in English. It can be said that the writing language that won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is still English, which is also the writing language that has won the most Nobel Prizes in Literature.
Throughout the nobel prize winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, most of the writing language used is English. According to the statistics of the Nobel Prize's official website, as of 2019, among the 116 Nobel Prize winners, 29 actually use English; the second place is French, with 15 winners writing in French; then there is German, a total of 14 winners write in German; followed by Spanish, with a total of 11 Nobel Prize winners.
It is worth mentioning that among the nobel laureates who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, there are also writers who write in different languages, such as Robindranath Tagore (1913) writing in Bengali and English; Samuel Beckert (1969) writing in French and English; and Joseph Brodsky (1987) writing poetry in Russian and prose in English. In the statistics published on the official website, the three Nobel laureates were counted in Bengali, French and Russian.
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