Hisham Matar | |
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Native name | هشام مطر |
Born | 1970 (age 53–54) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
Period | Present |
Genre | Fiction, Memoir |
Notable works | |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2017) |
Hisham Matar (Arabic: هشام مطر) (born 1970)[1] is an American born British-Libyan writer.[2] His memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 2017 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award.[3] His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.[1] And his Matar's essays have appeared in the Asharq al-Awsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published to wide acclaim on 3 March 2011. He lives and writes in London.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Comparative Literature, Asia & Middle East Cultures, and English at Barnard College, Columbia University.[2]