Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. Read More His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth First Book Award, the Premio Flaiano, and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, published in 2011, was named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. His memoir The Return won the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography and the PEN/Jean Stein Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and one of the New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year. His most recent novel, My Friends, won the Orwell Prize for political fiction. His work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He lives in London and New York.