Practice Task 2
Since we are targeting skill in vocabulary and knowledge about
African literature, we cannot go on without presenting the four African
writers who won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature.
Do you know what the Nobel Prize in Literature is? It is a Swedish literature prize
ded to an author from any country who has produced "the most outstanding work in
direction". It has become the world's most prestigious literature prize.
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So, you are meeting up with Wole Soyinka (1986) from Nigeria, Naguib Mahfouz
188) from Egypt, Nadine Gordimer (1991), and John M. Coetzee (2003) both from South
ica. To wrap up the list, we decided to include Doris Lessing (2007) who despite posting
r win to United Kingdom has undeniably African descent and much more concentration on
ories of African settings.
Of course, we also have the African-born French laureate Albert Camus, but we
his works that nrar
tad Algeria to the world, are still unrecognizable​