2021年のノーベル文学賞はタンザニア出身のブドゥルラザク・グルナ(1948- )氏が受賞した。
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Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee," the award-giving body said on Thursday.
uncompromising and compassionate penetration: 妥協のない共感にあふれた洞察
penetrationはこの場合、「洞察」。
a man of penetration 洞察力のある人(コンパスローズ)
Based in Britain and writing in English, Gurnah, 72, joins Nigeria's Wole Soyinka as the only two non-white writers from sub-Saharan Africa ever to win what is widely seen as the world's most prestigious literary award.
Wole Soyinka:詩人で劇作家のウォーレン・ショインカ(1934- )
sub-Saharan: サハラ砂漠以南の
His novels include "Paradise", set in colonial East Africa during World War One and short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and "Desertion."