Hisham Matar

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Hisham Matar (2011)

Hisham Matar ( Arabic هشام مطر Hischam Matar , DMG Hišām Maṭar ; * 1970 in New York City ) is a Libyan author.

Life

Hisham Matar spent the first three years of his life in New York, where his father, Jaballa Matar, worked for the Libyan delegation to the United Nations. When he was three years old, the family returned to Libya. It was here that Matar spent his early childhood until the family was forced to flee to Kenya and then Egypt because of political persecution. In Cairo he went to school with his brother. In 1986 Matar went to London, where he studied architecture. In 1990 Egypt extradited his father for supporting the Libyan resistance against Muammar al-Gaddafi .

Awarding of the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize 2017 to Hisham Matar

Matar's first novel, In the Country of Men , was published in 2006. The book has been translated into 22 languages ​​and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award . With this novel he won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize . Also in 2007, Nessuno al mondo received the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, which was awarded for the first time, as “Best Foreign Work”. His second book was published in 2011 under the title Anatomy of a Disappearance . For The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between , he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2017 and the Geschwister-Scholl Prize .

The author lives in London and writes his books in English.

Works

  • In the Country of Men. Viking, London 2006, ISBN 0-670-91639-0 .
  • Anatomy of a Disappearance. Viking, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-670-91651-1 .
    • German: story of a disappearance. (Translated from the English by Werner Loch-Lawrence.) Luchterhand, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87245-2 .
  • The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between , Viking, 2016.
    • The return. Looking for my lost father . Translation by Werner Loch Lawrence. Luchterhand, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-630-87422-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography
  2. ^ Guardian
  3. ↑ 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists. In: pulitzer.org. Retrieved April 10, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ Geschwister-Scholl-Preis 2017 for “The Return” by Hisham Matar , buchmarkt.de, October 5, 2017, accessed on October 5, 2017
  5. ↑ Neither dead nor alive. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . July 17, 2011, p. 26.
  6. ↑ Dictatorships can change too. In: FAZ . August 5, 2011, p. 32.
  7. ↑ Lena Bopp: The dictator could be heard in every cell . Review. In: FAZ , May 27, 2017, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Matar, Hisham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City