8 Quotes & Sayings By Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar is a writer, translator, and political activist. His latest novel Osama was short-listed for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, the world's most prestigious book award, and won the Duff Cooper Prize for Literary Translation in 2014. His other works include The Return (winner of the 2011 Whiting Award), which was translated into English by Karen Attiah; The Yacoubian Building (winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in France); and The Yacoubian Candidate. He is also the translator of Rushdie's Midnight's Children, which won the 2006 Commonwealth Book Prize Read more

He lives in Cairo.

And I remember this man who never ran out of...
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And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest. Hisham Matar
And I remember this man who never ran out of...
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And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest. Hisham Matar
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There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become an evocation, a possibility for resemblance. Perhaps this is what is meant by that brief and now almost archaic word: elegy Hisham Matar
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Can you become a man without becoming your father? Hisham Matar
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I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth. Hisham Matar
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One's nature is like a mountain Hisham Matar
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There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible. Hisham Matar