SWF Livestream: Abdulrazak Gurnah, 'Afterlives'

Next date: Friday, 24 May 2024 | 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

Nobel Prize winner’s saga of colonialism 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 Paradise, Abdulrazak interrogates the legacies of empire.

Listen as he and writer Sisonke Msimang discuss his tenth novel, Afterlives – an inter-generational portrait of love and loss under German occupation in East Africa.

 

SWF Live & Local @ Gerringong Library

This event is part of the Sydney Writers' Festival Live & Local program livestreaming direct from the Sydney Writers' Festival at Carriageworks to Gerringong Library from Thursday 23 May to Sunday 26 May.

Livestreamed sessions run over four days at Gerringong Library, and include Julia Baird, Celeste Ng, Trent Dalton, Leigh Sales, Larissa Behrendt, Richard Glover, Wendy Harmer, William McInnes, perennial festival favourites Barry Cassidy and friends, and more.

Book individual sessions or a full day ticket.

Morning and afternoon tea is available between sessions (where indicated on the program) for a gold-coin donation to the Friends of Kiama Library - stay for a chat!

Bookings are essential for this free event (if you are unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible so someone else can have your place). 

Book online or call 02 4233 1133.

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Gerringong Library, 8 Blackwood Street, Gerringong, 2534, View Map