Experience the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2024 from the comfort of the Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place, with live-streamed sessions delivered locally.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
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 Booker Prize shortlisted Paradise, Abdulrazak’s unflinching yet humane oeuvre interrogates the legacies of empire, centring that which is often too marginalised.
Listen as he and writer Sisonke Msimang discuss his tenth novel, Afterlives – an intergenerational portrait of love and loss under German occupation in East Africa.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Friday 24 May 2024
Time: 2pm-3pm
Arrival: Please arrive 15 minutes early at 1.45pm.
Location: Learning Lab, Level 2, Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place
EXPLORE SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL LIVESTREAMS
Join us from 23-26 May at the Harry Bailey Memorial Library for live-streamed headline events. Catch authors like Trent Dalton and Leigh Sales. Visit the library website for more details.
