Hisham Matar

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I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn’t happened.

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Like all novelists, I’m interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least expect it, and trying to get them to want to listen.

April 30, 2024

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least expect it, and trying to get them to want to listen.

April 30, 2024

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn’t happened.

Hisham Matar

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Like all novelists, I’m interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least expect it, and trying to get them to want to listen.

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least expect it, and trying to get them to want to listen.

Like all novelists, I’m interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

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