My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War,… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My parents were fairly laid-back, but there were certain things about which they were very strict. My brother and I were told never to… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Libyans are deeply unsettled by Gaddafi and his regime's careless contempt for human life. The dictatorship is willing to employ any methods necessary to… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My best hope is that Libya turns into a peaceful, sensible country that has all the things my father and lots of others have… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
