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Hisham Matar was born on 1970 in New York City, U.S., is an American born British-Libyan writer (born 1970). Discover Hisham Matar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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1969

His father, Jaballa Matar, who was considered a political dissident for his opinions on Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's coup in 1969, had to move the family away from Tripoli and was working for the Libyan delegation to the United Nations, in New York, at the time of Matar's birth.

1970

Hisham Matar (هشام مطر) (born 1970) is an American born British-Libyan writer.

Hisham Matar was born in New York City, in 1970, the second of two sons.

1973

The family moved back to Tripoli, Libya, in 1973, but fled the country again in 1979.

Matar was nine when they moved to Cairo, where the family lived in exile, and where Matar's father became more vocal against the Gaddafi regime.

Matar continued his schooling at Cairo's American school.

1982

In 1982, Matar's brother Ziad left for boarding school in the Swiss Alps.

Though Matar desperately wanted to join his brother, he had to wait four more years until he too was sixteen.

Because of the continued threats by the Libyan dictatorship against their father (as well as a threat to Ziad's safety while he was studying in Switzerland), however, he could not follow his brother to Switzerland.

Both boys had to attend the schools under a false identity.

1986

Matar chose a school in England and enrolled in 1986.

1990

In 1990, while he was still studying in London, his father, Jaballa Matar, was abducted in Cairo.

He has been reported missing ever since.

"'In March 1990, Egyptian secret service agents abducted my father from his home in Cairo. For the first two years they led us to believe that he was being held in Egypt, and told us to keep quiet or else they could not guarantee his safety. In 1992 my father managed to smuggle out a letter. A few months later my mother held it in her hand. His careful handwriting curled tightly on to itself to fit as many words as possible on the single A4 sheet of paper. Words with hardly a space between, above or beneath them. No margins, they run to the brink.' —Hisham Matar, 2010."

Hisham Matar has written three novels, two memoirs, and a children's book published in Italian, Il Libro di Dot.

He has also written several articles, essays and short stories that have been published on various websites.

1996

In 1996, the family received two letters in his father's handwriting stating that he had been kidnapped by the Egyptian secret police, handed over to the Libyan regime, and imprisoned in the notorious Abu Salim prison in the heart of Tripoli.

The letters were the last sign and only thing they had heard from him or about his whereabouts.

2000

Matar began writing his first novel, In the Country of Men, in early 2000.

2005

In the autumn of 2005, the publishers Penguin International signed him to a two-book deal.

2006

His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

Matar's essays have appeared in the Asharq al-Awsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times.

In the Country of Men was published in July 2006 and has been translated into 30 languages.

ISBN 0-670-91639-0

Matar's second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, contains a character whose father is taken away by the authorities; while Matar acknowledges the relation to his own father's disappearance, he has stated that the novel is not autobiographical.

ISBN 0-670-91651-X

2009

In 2009, Matar reported that he had received news that his father had been seen alive in 2002, indicating that Jaballa had survived a 1996 massacre of 1200 political prisoners by the Libyan authorities.

2011

His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published to wide acclaim on 3 March 2011.

He lives and writes in London.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Comparative Literature, Asia & Middle East Cultures, and English at Barnard College, Columbia University.

"'I was to pretend that my mother was Egyptian and my father American. It was thought that this would explain, to any Arabs in the school, why my Arabic was Egyptian and why my English was American. My first name was Bob. Ziad chose it because both he and I were fans of Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. I was to pretend I was Christian, though not religious. I was to try to forget my name. If someone called Hisham, I was not to turn.' — Hisham Matar, 2011."By the time Matar finished his studies, Ziad was a university student in London.

Matar decided to pursue his studies in architecture, and later received an MA in Design Futures at Goldsmiths, University of London.

2012

The memoir centers on Matar's return to his native Libya in 2012 to search for the truth behind the 1990 disappearance of his father, a prominent political dissident of the Gaddafi regime.

ISBN 0-670-92333-8

2016

In 2016, Matar published his memoir The Return.

2017

His memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 2017 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award.

Il Libro di Dot is a children's book released by Matar in 2017.

It is his first children's book and was illustrated by Gianluca Buttolo.

ISBN 978-8865671924

2019

On October 17, 2019, Matar published A Month in Siena.