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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1994
  • Latest Book:
    September 2017
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Book List in Order: 5 titles



  • Samad's search for Leila is an odyssey through a world where the jackhammers are destroying more than bricks and mortar: they are tearing into the souls of people, brutalising them, leaving them with hearts as empty as the shop windows in Hanover Str...



  • "Dangor writes lyrical...beautiful prose. Kafka's Curse is....full of cries that go on ringing in the head." --The New York Times Book Review

    From the award-winning South African poet Achmat Dangor, an extraordinary American debut and an imagi...



  • With the publication of Kafka's Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, is a clear-eyed, witty, yet deeply...



  • From the award-winning pen of Achmat Dangor comes a subtle and multi-layered collection of short stories that showcases an unusual and illuminating take on ‘the struggle years’, and how the past impacts on us in a variety of ways.The jour...



  • An evocative and finely detailed novel of ordinary life under apartheid that follows the lives of a family, particularly the women of various generations, who are named Dikeledi, who together form the backbone of the story. Dikeledi captures, careful...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Achmat Dangor has published 5 books.

Achmat Dangor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dikeledi, was published in September 2017.

The first book by Achmat Dangor, Waiting for Leila, was published in June 1994.

No. Achmat Dangor does not write books in series.