American · b. 1970
Hisham Matar's debut "In the Country of Men" was shortlisted for the 2006 Booker Prize, depicting a boy's experience of Gaddafi's Libya. The Libyan-American author's memoir "The Return" won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, documenting his search for his father, a dissident disappeared by the regime. "My Friends" earned a 2024 Booker longlist. Matar writes about exile, loss, and the impossibility of going home.