"…Since I was a boy I attended English schools. For this reason my English tends to be better than my Arabic. This is the practical reason behind my writing in English. That is not to say that it is "natural," as you call it, to write in English. In fact what interests me about my situation is how unnatural it continues to be. It never ceases to unsettle me that I am operating in a language my grandparents would have not understood."
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On why he wrote his novel In the Country of Men in English in “An Interview with Hisham Matar” in Words Without Borders (August 2007)
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Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar (born 1970) is a Libyan writer currently living in the United Kingdom, whose debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
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