Nationality
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Abdulrazak Gurnah is part of the 2018 1st Semester cohort at STIAS.
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Event
STIAS Lecture Series 2018: Abdulrazak Gurnah – Reading the World
Please note the new venue for STIAS Public Lectures: Room 1046, ground floor, Van der Sterr Building (use entrance 1 opposite the CGW Schumann Building).
Event
Public Lecture by Nobel laureate Prof Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Article
Reading the World – moving away from universalising to a recognition of difference: Public lecture by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A South-South dialogue would disperse the source of critical and aesthetic concerns from the Eurocentric influence which colonial education and global dominance has made inescapable.
Article
2021 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 is awarded to Tanzanian novelist and STIAS fellow Abdulrazak Gurnah for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.
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Reminding us to read, reread and hope - Public lecture by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Closely following the Nobel in Africa launch and inaugural Nobel Symposium at STIAS, Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, the first Tanzanian and fifth African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature returned to STIAS to present the annual Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) humanities lecture on 3 November 2022 in partnership with STIAS.
Publication
Afterlives
Gurnah, Abdulrazak . 2020. Afterlives (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afterlives-9781526615879/