Collection: Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar was born in 1970 in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo. His first novel, In the Country of Men (2006), was short-listed for the Man Brooker Prize. He lives in London.

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Collection: Hisham Matar