Abdul Razak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah | Afterlives

Recorded: Fri 22 Apr 2022

Duration: 1 hour

Abdulrazak Gurnah | Afterlives

Spring Festival 2022

An evening with the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature   

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah makes a hotly-anticipated appearance at the Festival to discuss Afterlives, his riveting new novel about how German colonial rule destroyed lives in Tanzania. To read Gurnah is to witness a lost Africa come to life, to see Gurnah is to be enchanted by a master storyteller. He is joined by critic Alex Clark.   

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