Born in New York to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in England. His debut novel In the Country of Men was published in twenty-nine languages and won numerous international prizes as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance , was published to great acclaim in 2011. He lives in London and New York.%%%Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006, the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US. It won six international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book award for Europe and South Asia, the Royal Society of Literatury Ondaatje Prize and the inaugural Arab American Book Award. It has been translated into twenty-eight languages.

Hisham Matar's second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance , was published in 2011. Hisham Matar lives in London.%%%Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo. His debut novel In the Country of Men was published in twenty-eight languages and won numerous international prizes as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance , was published in 2011 to rave reviews from authors such as Michael Frayn and Roddy Doyle.