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Hisham Matar, 53, was born in New York to Libyan parents and raised in Tripoli, Cairo and London, the place he has lived most since his mid-.
The Return by Hisham Matar has won the 2017 Pulitzer Price for Biography or Autobiography.

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Hisham Matar

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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. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and The Guardian First Book Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and a Commonwealth First Book Award. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published to great acclaim in 2011.

His prize-winning memoir, The Return, was published in 2016 and was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Prix du Livre Etranger Inter & Le Journal du Dimanche, the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Germany’s Geschwister Scholl Prize. It was one of The New York Times' top 10 books of the year. Matar’s work has been translated into thirty lang

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The Return (memoir)

2016 memoir by Hisham Matar

For other books, see The Return (disambiguation) § Print media.

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between is a memoir by Hisham Matar that was first published in June 2016.^[4] 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.^[1] It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography,^[5] the inaugural 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award^[6] and the 2017 Folio Prize, becoming the first nonfiction book to do so.^[7]

Synopsis

In 1990, Hisham Matar's father, a prominent critic of Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorship, was kidnapped by Gaddafi's agents and imprisoned in Libya. Matar never saw his father after that. The memoir follows Matar's return to Libya in 2012, following Gaddafi's death, to find out what happened to his father.^[1]^[8]

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Critical response

The Return was critical

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