Last year's prize winner, Tanzanian-born, U.K.-based writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, was only the sixth Nobel literature laureate born in Africa.

FILE - South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File) ...

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and passionate” portrayals of the effects of colonialism. Gurnah was born in Tanzania ...

Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in literature as the 1st Norwegian author in nearly a century to win the award Jon Fosse, one of Norway’s most-performed dramatists, wrote 40 plays as well as novels ...

He becomes only the sixth Africa-born writer to win a Nobel literature prize, which has overwhelmingly gone to North American and European authors since its inception more than 100 years ago. He ...

Ernaux was just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates. The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers, as well as too ...

FILE - South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File) ...

President Donald Trump touts his efforts in Ukraine and other conflicts as reasons to give him the prize, received by four ...