10 May 2022 - 10 May 2022
2:30PM - 5:00PM
Online and Department of English Studies, Hallgarth House
Free
Mark Abdulrazak Gurnah's recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature with our afternoon of talks and discussions. This event is co-organised between the Department of English Studies at Durham University, the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, and the Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group.
Mark Abdulrazak Gurnah's recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature with our afternoon of talks and discussions.
All times are local UK time.
A pre-recorded conversation with Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature.
Dr Lucinda Newns: Abdulrazak Gurnah in the Context of Migrant and Refugee Writing
Dr Florian Stadtler: Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives (2020): Memorialising the Traumas of German Colonialism in East Africa.
Discussion led by Drs Newns and Stadtler on Gurnah's latest novel, Afterlives.
Tea and coffee provided.
Photo credit: Abulrazak Gurnah on Hebron Panel, by PalFest, via Flickr. Reproduced under Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) licence.
This is a hybrid event and will be accessible both in person and online. Please register using the appropriate link.
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