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Hisham Matar

Libya (b.1970)

Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970 and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo. He has lived in London since 1986.

Genres: Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

March 2025

Goya's the Forge

Novels

   In the Country of Men (2006)
   Anatomy of a Disappearance (2011)
   My Friends (2024)

Non fiction show

Hisham Matar recommends

Other Names for Love (2022)
Taymour Soomro
"A beautiful novel on the desire to leave and the hope to remain, the need to find oneself among one's people and away from them."

Awards

2017 The Writers' Prize for Fiction : The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

Award nominations

2006 Booker Prize (shortlist) : In the Country of Men

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