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Sydney Writers' Festival Livestream - Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives
- Fri 24th May, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- 257 Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW 2620
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Explore his writing and unpack the legacies of empire with acclaimed writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, speaking with Sisonke Msimang.
Nobel Prize winner’s saga ofcolonialism in Africa.
At 18, Abdulrazak Gurnah arrived in England as a refugee from the Zanzibar Revolution. Receiving the Nobel Prize more than 50 years later, he reflected that the “prolonged period of poverty and alienation” he experienced made him a writer. From the contemporary immigrant experience in his debut, Memory of Departure, to colonial wartime conscription in Booker Prize shortlisted Paradise, Abdulrazak’s unflinching yet humane oeuvre interrogates the legacies of empire, centring that which is often too marginalised. Listen as he and writer Sisonke Msimang discuss his tenth novel, Afterlives– an intergenerational portrait of love and loss under German occupation in East Africa.
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