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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
January 2024

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My Friends
 
March 2025

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Goya's the Forge
 
Novels
   In the Country of Men (2006)
   Anatomy of a Disappearance (2011)
   My Friends (2024)
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Non fiction show
 
Hisham Matar recommends
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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
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2006) : In the Country of Men
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book winner (2017) : The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between


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