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About Hisham Matar
American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist
Hisham Matar is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for writing about exile, loss, family, and political violence, often through work shaped by his own experience of displacement. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. His memoir The Return, which follows the search for his father, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and several other awards. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and he has written several other novels.
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Fear: more sayings
- “Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.”Alexandre Dumas
- “No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”Edmund Burke
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Books by Hisham Matar
In the Country of Men
2006
Anatomy of a disappearance
2012