Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah kicked off the 38th Annual Portland Arts & Lectures season on September 22, 2022.
We like to ask all of our Portland Arts & Lectures guests for their top reading recommendations. Mr Gurnah’s were:
Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, by Assia Djebar
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, by Maaza Mengiste.