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Hisham Matar

Libya (b.1970)

Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970 and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo. He has lived in London since 1986.

Awards: SoA (2025), Orwell (2024), NBCC (2024), Writers' Prize (2017) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   In the Country of Men (2006)
   Anatomy of a Disappearance (2011)
   My Friends (2024)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Hisham Matar

Lunatics, Lovers and Poets (2016)
Twelve Stories After Cervantes and Shakespeare
edited by
Daniel Hahn and Margarita Valencia

Awards

	2025 Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize : My Friends
	2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction : My Friends
	2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : My Friends
	2017 The Writers' Prize for Fiction : The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

Award nominations

	2025 Jhalak Prize (shortlist) : My Friends
	2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlist) : My Friends
	2024 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : My Friends
	2024 Booker Prize (longlist) : My Friends
	2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : In the Country of Men
	2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book (nominee) : In the Country of Men
	2006 Booker Prize (shortlist) : In the Country of Men

Hisham Matar recommends

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (2025)
Kiran Desai
"Kiran Desai reveals the breadth and depth of time, how it weighs on families and nations caught within the drama of history. She captures this with a rare and astute sensitivity that, no matter her subject, casts a light on our present."

Other Names for Love (2022)
Taymour Soomro
"A beautiful novel on the desire to leave and the hope to remain, the need to find oneself among one's people and away from them."

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