#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.

Event Sponsor
#Series
#More events
Brisbane as a Storied City
Smoke Encrypted Whispers
Main Festival
Accessibility Matters
In Your Suburb / Free event
In Your Suburb - Sophie Overett
Main Festival




