Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar
Matar at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading
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
Notable works	In the Country of Men Anatomy of a Disappearance The Return A Month in Siena My Friends
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.