Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar Arabic: Hisham Matr ( * 1970 in New York City ) is a Libyan author.

Life

Hisham Matar spent the first three years of 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. Here Matar spent his early childhood until the family was forced to flee because of political persecution to Kenya and then to Egypt. In Cairo, he visited the school with his brother. Matar in 1986 went to London, where he studied architecture. 1990 Egypt gave his father because of the support of the Libyan resistance against Gaddafi from.

Hisham Matar's first novel, In the Country of Men was published in 2006. The book has been translated into 22 languages ​​and was nominated for the shortlist of the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. With this novel, he won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second book was published in 2011 under the title Anatomy of a Disappearance. The author lives in London.

Works

• 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.

• German: Story of a Disappearance. ( Translated from English by Werner holes Lawrence. ) Luchterhand, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87245-2.