Hisham Matar
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 .
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
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In the Country of Men. Viking, London 2006, ISBN 0-670-91639-0 .
- German: In the land of men. Luchterhand, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-87244-5 .
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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 .
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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
- Literature by and about Hisham Matar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Hisham Matar in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Hisham Matar, translator: Michael Bischoff : Until the pain subsides. Libya's spirit. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 3, 2011, accessed on March 4, 2011 (Commentary on the changes in Libya due to the 2011 uprising in Libya ).
- Wera Reusch: Looking for a father. Review on amnesty.de , accessed on January 8, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography
- ^ Guardian
- ↑ 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists. In: pulitzer.org. Retrieved April 10, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Geschwister-Scholl-Preis 2017 for “The Return” by Hisham Matar , buchmarkt.de, October 5, 2017, accessed on October 5, 2017
- ↑ Neither dead nor alive. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . July 17, 2011, p. 26.
- ↑ Dictatorships can change too. In: FAZ . August 5, 2011, p. 32.
- ↑ Lena Bopp: The dictator could be heard in every cell . Review. In: FAZ , May 27, 2017, p. 12
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SURNAME | Matar, Hisham |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Libyan writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |