Achmat Dangor Quotes

South Africa, Writer
October 2, 1948 – September, 6, 2020.

Achmat Dangor was a South African writer. His most important works include the novels Kafka's Curse (1997) and Bitter Fruit (2001), but he is also the author of three collections of poetry, a novella and a short-story collection. He is the winner of many literary prizes, including the South African Bosman prize for Kafka's Curse. Bitter Fruit was shortlisted for Booker Prize for 2004.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled.

Achmat Dangor
- History
- Resist
- Defiled
He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple?

Achmat Dangor
- Immortality
- Sweetness