Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Elif Shafak

Grab a front row seat to an extraordinary conversation between two literary greats: Nobel Prize-winner Abdulrazak Gurnah and Booker-shortlisted Elif Shafak. The pair talk about their writing, the role of literature in presenting diverse perspectives, and the power of storytelling to bring hope in times of crisis and in a deeply polarised and fractured world.

Gurnah’s latest novel is Theft, in which he explores the intertwined lives of three young people as they come of age in postcolonial East Africa. He is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.

British/Turkish novelist Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky is set across multiple timelines and locations, and follows a group of people who are connected by a single drop of water. Her book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.