Hisham matar biography examples
Hisham matar biography examples
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Hisham Matar
American born British-Libyan writer
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.
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He has also written several other novels.
Early life and education
Hisham Matar was born in New York City in 1970, the son of Jaballa Matar, who was considered a political dissident for his opinions on Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's 1969 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 1973, but fled the c