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          —Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men. Hisham Matar was born in New York City in to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in....

          Hisham Matar

          American born British-Libyan writer

          Hisham Matar (Arabic: هشام مطر; born 1970) is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist.

          On 22 August, the day Libyan rebel forces took Tripoli, acclaimed author and son of Libya, Hisham Matar, opened an impassioned essay with.

        1. The lawyer and novelist, both nominated for the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction, announced on 15 November, discuss human rights, citizenship and identity.
        2. —Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men. Hisham Matar was born in New York City in to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in.
        3. I had a clear but utterly irrational thought: What if I had never known of Hisham Matar or his father, Jaballa, or his resistance and courage?
        4. Abstract.

          5. 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.

          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