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Time: 2022-04-28 14:00
City: Online
City: Online
28
Apr
Online
A conversation with Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 was awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar and active in England, “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.
As part of the Nordic Africa Institute’s 60th year anniversary celebrations, we will host a virtual conversation with the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 2021, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Erik Falk, former senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, who did his PhD dissertation on ‘Subject and history in selected works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera and David Dabydeen’.
- Nobel laureate:
Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 2021, Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent.
- Moderator:
Dr. Erik Falk, Coordinator for External Collaboration, Södertörn University and former Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute.