Reasons to Stay Alive and The Life Impossible. Matt Haig In Conversation.
Sat 22 Mar
Friday, 21 Mar
19:00
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7:00pm
Running Time 1 hour 30 mins
Venue St Peter's School, St Peter's School, Clifton
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, will be in conversation with Professor Sarah Lawson Welsh from York St John University at this very special event. They will be talking about Gurnah’s latest novel Theft, in which he explores the intertwined lives of three young people – Karim, Gauzia and Badar – as they come of age in postcolonial East Africa. Theft has been selected as a book to look out for in 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and BBC.
About Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize and the 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.
This event is part of York Literature Festival and will take place at St. Peter’s School, Clifton, York, YO30 6AB.