Hisham Matar.
HISHAM MATAR: BIOGRAPHY OF HIS FATHER
THE RETURN: FATHERS, SONS AND THE LAND IN BETWEEN (2016)
Winnner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Shortlisted for the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again.
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Hisham Matar (born 1970) is a British-American writer who was born in the New York City and now lives in London. In addition to his fiction and non-fiction books, he has writen essays in the Independent, the Times, and the New York Times. Hisham Matar obtained a degree in architecture, and an MA in Design Futures at Goldsmith’s, University of London.
