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Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, explores themes of exile, identity, and belonging. Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo, and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir The Return (2016) received a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. He is also the author of In the Country of Men (2007), shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Anatomy of a Disappearance (2011); and A Month in Siena (2019). His most recent novel, My Friends (2024), won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2024, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into over 30 languages.

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Literature of Exile

Hisham Matar's work—spanning fiction and nonfiction—explores the lasting impact of dictatorship and exile. Through his novels and Pulitzer-Prize-winning memoir "The Return," Matar grapples with themes of memory, loss, and the unbreakable ties to his…