Abdulrazak Gurnah | Theft

Thu 20 Mar 2025 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Abdulrazak Gurnah
Theft - Abdulrazak Gurnah
bonnie lander johnson

We are delighted to welcome back Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, to share his first novel since winning the prize. This is the captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming of age in postcolonial East Africa. As they take their first steps in love, infatuation, work and parenthood, can their bond withstand a betrayal that will change their lives forever? 

In Conversation with Bonnie Lander Johnson

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Venue: Palmerston Room at St John's

Duration: 1 hour

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Author Biography

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. He is the first Black African author to be honoured by the committee in 35 years. Published in 44 languages, he is 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 2021 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.

Chair Biography

Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Associate Professor at Downing College, Cambridge where she teaches English Literature. She is an award-winning fiction and non-fiction writer. This year she publishes Vanishing Landscapes, a book of nature writing and social history that tells the story of how we became modern people, alienated from the landscape.