Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Return | 2016 | Buy |
| A Month in Siena | 2019 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| In the Country of Men | 2006 | Buy |
| Anatomy of a Disappearance | 2011 | Buy |
| My Friends | 2024 | Buy |
Hisham Matar is a British-Libyan author born in New York City in 1970. He spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo before studying architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. His father, a political dissident opposed to Muammar Qaddafi’s regime, was abducted in Cairo in 1990 and has never been found. That loss runs through everything Matar writes.
His debut novel In the Country of Men (2006) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. His memoir The Return (2016) won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Folio Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. His most recent novel, My Friends (2024), was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Across both fiction and non-fiction, Matar writes about exile, displacement, and the way political violence reshapes private lives.