“Literature gives us pleasure — not superficial enjoyment, but a profound pleasure that broadens our minds. Literature allows us to revisit what we know from a new perspective. Literature brings us news — not merely facts, but deep human truths. Literature reassures us that how we feel is shared. It reminds us of our shared humanity.”

📚🎙️On 24 June, Abdulrazak #Gurnah, recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in #Literature, delivered the 32nd Hermann Staudinger Lecture at the University of Freiburg @unifreiburg. His talk reflected on understandings of “togetherness,” historically, literally and as humans. 

You can now watch the video recording online: https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/32-staudinger-lecture-abdulrazak-gurnah/

Breaking new ground at our prestigious Hermann Staudinger Lecture Series: Abdulrazak #Gurnah will be the first Nobel Laureate in Hashtag#Literature to join this series traditionally focused on the natural sciences.

👥With his lecture titled 'Living together', Abdulrazak Gurnah would like us to reflect on who ‘together’ refers to in such a statement. Our reflections will probably make us think of difference: in religion, language and social practice. It will probably also make us think of other associated tropes depending on dispositions and inclinations.

📚 So at least one way of understanding our topic is that it is an address to the question of living together with foreigners. In addition, ‘together’ implies mutuality, how we might live together, rather than how foreigners might learn to live with us. In this ongoing phenomenon with its changing troupe of actors playing out a ritual drama, where does literature stand?

📅 It is a great honor for us to welcome Abdulrazak Gurnah @unifreiburg. Places are limited, so don’t miss to register for this special event: https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/32-staudinger-lecture-abdulrazak-gurnah/

Photo: © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Hugh Fox

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Just finished the 1994 novel "Paradise" by Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Zanzibar born author takes us into the world of colonial Africa - A coming of age story filled with fascinating characters of differing backgrounds, each with a mysterious past that, once revealed will lead the main character to a surprising decision ...

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1/2 Two parallel lives, compared for the first time here.

#Abdulrazak #Gurnah:
1948: born in Zanzibar to migrant parents from Yemen.
1967: flees the Revolution to SE England (Kent) with brother.
1985: becomes a lecturer at the University of Kent.
1987: publishes first novel.
1991: publishes first scholarly article.
2021: wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

Assegnato il #PremioNobel2021 per la #Letteratura a #Gurnah, #migrante di colore.

Immagino gli attacchi di #Salvini alla #Lamorgese e la richiesta della #Meloni di vedere l’intero girato de “La mia Africa”

Le prix #Nobel de #littérature 2021 attribué au romancier tanzanien Abdulrazak #Gurnah

Le natif de Zanzibar, auteur de dix romans dont « Paradise » et « Près de la mer », a été récompensé pour sa narration « empathique et sans compromis des effets du colonialisme ».

https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2021/10/07/le-prix-nobel-de-litterature-2021-attribue-au-romancier-tanzanien-abdulrazak-gurnah_6097478_3246.html