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Portland Arts & Lectures 2022/23: Abdulrazak Gurnah

Thu, Sep 22, 2022 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205

$110–$425 (Five-part series)

This event is part of our 38th season of Portland Arts & Lectures. Subscriptions for the five-part lecture series are on sale now.

All lectures will be held in person at The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in downtown Portland, OR. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. on the night of the lecture, with the program beginning promptly at 7:30 p.m.

For more information on the season, please see our FAQs or reach out to us at la@literary-arts.org.


At this time this event does not require proof of vaccination. Wearing a face mask is optional but strongly recommended.

Vaccination and masking policies will vary for all our events this season and will depend on factors such as public health mandates, venue requirements, and artist preferences, which are subject to change.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a celebrated novelist, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. The Nobel Prize committee cited his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents” for his win. Gurnah’s novels include Memory of DeparturePilgrims Way, DottieParadise, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, Admiring SilenceBy the Sea, Desertion, The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and most recently, Afterlives. Born in Zanzibar in 1948, Gurnah emigrated to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006, and is on the advisory board of the journal Wasafiri. Gurnah is professor emeritus of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent, and lives in Canterbury, England.
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