A Talk on Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah by Dr. Laya Soleymanzadeh
Dear All,
On behalf of the Yaşar University Department of English Language and Literature, we would like to invite you to join us for the forthcoming online event in the English Language and Literature seminar series.
A Talk on Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah:
“Bridging the Gulf between Cultures and Continents”
Dr. Laya Soleymanzadeh, METU
| Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who lives in the United Kingdom. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. Today, he is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.
Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. (BBC News, 2021) |
TIME: December 14, 2021 – 16:30-17:30
EVENT LINK: Our event will be held on MS Teams.
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