The Latest Novel from Noble Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Sep 12, 2022

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the latest Nobel Prize recipient in literature, receiving the award for his decades of writing about colonialism, refugees, and family. Gurnah joins us to discuss his career and his latest novel, Afterlives, a story of characters living under German colonial rule in East Africa. 

*Gurnah will be speaking tonight at the New York Public Library SNFL event center at 6:30 p.m.

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