#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Gurnah’s writing shows us ordinary people whose lives are shaped by colonial ambitions, injustice and cruelty. Afterlives is also a great love story, praised as ‘riveting, heartbreaking’. In 2021, Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature. A conversation on the effects of colonialism, war and how humans hold on to love and family in the midst of it all.
Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Sarah Kanowski
This is an in-person event at State Library with the author livestreaming in on screen.
Proudly supported by Griffith University.
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#Artist
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart and Afterlives. The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2021, he lives in Canterbury.
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