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American born British-Libyan writer

Hisham Matar (Arabic: هشام مطر; born ) is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 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.

Early life and education

Hisham Matar was born in New York City in , the son of Jaballa Matar, who was considered a political dissident for his opinions on Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's coup, and had to move the family away from Tripoli.

He was working for the Libyan delegation to the United Nations, in New York, at the time of Matar's birth.^[1][2]

The family moved back to Tripoli in , but fled the country again in Matar was n Hisham Matar - National Book Foundation HEVA