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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

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Biography

Nationality: Afghani

Type: Novelist

Born: March 4th, 1965

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