{"id":3171,"date":"2021-10-07T13:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:24:21","slug":"former-member-of-staff-and-kent-alumnus-abdulrazak-gurnah-wins-the-2021-nobel-prize-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2021\/10\/07\/former-member-of-staff-and-kent-alumnus-abdulrazak-gurnah-wins-the-2021-nobel-prize-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Former member of staff and Kent alumnus Abdulrazak Gurnah wins The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"
We are absolutely delighted that our former University of Kent lecturer and alumnus, Abdulrazak Gurnah, has been awarded the #NobelPrize<\/a> for literature – truly inspirational! \"👏\"
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The University\u2019s Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Karen Cox was among the first to offer congratulations<\/p>\n

She said: \u2018On behalf of the entire University I’d like to extend our huge congratulations to Abdulrazak for this tremendous achievement. Abdulrazak is a complete inspiration to all of us – as a teacher, an alumnus of Kent and as such a powerful voice in post-colonial literature. His stories, some of which were first drafted in our very own Templeman Library, have touched millions worldwide and shine a light on human experiences that are so often ignored. We couldn’t be prouder of his success”<\/p>\n

Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh, Head of the University\u2019s School of English, added:<\/p>\n

\u2018Abdulrazak Gurnah\u2019s writing epitomises our contemporary condition of displacement, violence, and belonging. His is the struggle for individual voice, for justice, for feeling at home in an ever-changing world. No one writing today has articulated the pains of exile and the rewards of belonging so well. Canterbury and Kent are both his exile and home.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read more about Abdulrazak and his fantastic achievement here: https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/culture\/29881\/kent-alumnus-and-emeritus-professor-abdulrazak-gurnah-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature-2021<\/a><\/div>\n
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Do you have any memories of Abdulrazak Gurnah? Was he one of your lecturers? We’d love to know! Contact us via alumni@kent.ac.uk.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are absolutely delighted that our former University of Kent lecturer and alumnus, Abdulrazak Gurnah, has been awarded the #NobelPrize for literature – truly inspirational! … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56138,"featured_media":3181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[807,1201,229061,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}