Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970, to Libyan parents, grew up in Tripoli and Cairo, and has spent most of his adult life in England. His debut, In the Country of Men (Salamandra, 2007), was translated into about thirty languages and won six major international literary awards. A success he repeated with his second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance (Salamandra, 2011). His third book, the autobiographical narrative The Return (Salamandra, 2017), won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the Folio Prize. His latest work is A Month in Siena (Salamandra, 2022). A professor at Barnard College, Matar is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Art.
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