Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives (Sydney Writers Festival)

Explore his writing and unpack the legacies of empire with acclaimed writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose 10th novel explores displacement, loss and love during and after German occupation of East Africa. With Sisonke Msimang.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He 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, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.

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