Hisham Matar

The Booker-nominated, Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks about political exile and the emotional homeland to be found in deep friendships.

Heralded as one of the year’s literary highlights and winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, Hisham’s latest book considers universal human experiences – coming of age, longing, belonging, loving, lives lived and not lived, as well as unpacking the idea of what a ‘family’ can be. Hisham will be in conversation with fiction reviewer for The Telegraph, Jake Kerridge.

‘I have always admired Matar’s tender and compassionate but equally strong and compelling voice.’ – Elif Shafak

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