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Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar is the Libyan-American novelist and memoirist behind The Return (2016, Pulitzer Prize), In the Country of Men (2006, Booker Prize shortlist), Anatomy of a Disappearance (2011), and My Friends (2024). Matar is one of the canonical contemporary American literary writers of his generation and teaches at Barnard College.
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2016-2024
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My Friends by Hisham Matar 2024 review. Three Libyan exiles meet in 1980s Edinburgh and navigate three decades of London expatriate life. Matar's fourth book.
The Return by Hisham Matar 2016 review. Matar returns to Libya in 2012 to investigate the 1990 disappearance of his father, the opposition leader Jaballa Matar. Pulitzer Prize.
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