Hisham Matar | |
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 Matar in 2011 | |
| Native name | هشام مطر |
| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
| Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Period | Present |
| Genre | Fiction, memoir |
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| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2017) |
Hisham Matar (Arabic: هشام مطر; born 1970) is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and several other awards. Matar's essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and many other publications. He has also written several other novels.