Hisham Matar
Author · 15 books
Hisham Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents. He grew up in Tripoli and, after his family emigrated, in Cairo. His novels include In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance. His memoir The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between received, among other honors, the Geschwister Scholl Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Folio Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. His novel My Friends received the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.