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Hisham Matar is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the memoir The Return, which also received the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Prix du Livre Etranger Internationale and Le Journal du Dimanche, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. It was also selected as one of the New York Times' top 10 books of the year. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the London Guardian First Book Award and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and a Commonwealth First Book Award. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published to great acclaim in 2011, and was named one of the best books of the year by several publications, including the Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Independent, and The Guardian. Matar’s work has been translated into thirty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. |