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Hisham Matar: ‘I learned English by listening to Jane Austen audiobooks’

The British-Libyan author on Hemingway’s craft, finding comfort in Joseph Conrad, and spending six months drowning in Austen

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2025

Salman Rushdie and Miranda July among National Book award finalists

This year’s contenders for the main prizes also include Percival Everett, Hisham Matar and Kaveh Akbar

The Guardian - US · Oct 1, 2024

My Friends by Hisham Matar audiobook review – life in exile

Three Libyan friends navigate life in London, separated from their families, in a meditative book steeped in the author’s own experience

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2024

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Three British authors nominated for the Booker Prize longlist

This year’s prize features three debut novelists and six previously nominated writers

Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2024

This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024

Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024

Booker Prize announces 13 books on ‘glorious’ longlist of ‘timeless and timely fiction’

This year’s longlist spotlights stories about belonging and displacement, featuring literary heavyweights such as Richard Powers and Percival Everett alongside a clutch of debut novelists

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2024

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Hisham Matar wins Orwell prize for political fiction

The Pulitzer winner’s third novel My Friends is based on an event from 1984, when officials opened fire on protesters at the Libyan embassy in London

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2024

‘These people matter’: why Diana Matar photographs the sites where US police have killed civilians

The celebrated US photographer’s new series is a quietly devastating commemoration and a critique of modern American culture

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2024

Hisham Matar: ‘We all go through a lot. I’m wary of having “material”’

The Pulitzer prize winner on the life-changing impact of the 1984 Libyan embassy shootings, attaching his writing to the wall when he’s stuck and his unreliability as a football fan

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2024

Fiction to look out for in 2024

The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2024

My Friends by Hisham Matar review – the pain of exile

This delicate novel explores the bonds between three Libyan men living in London, far away from their homeland

The Guardian - UK · Dec 28, 2023

Best travel books of all time to inspire your next trip

You don’t always have to leave your home for the journey of a lifetime

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2023

Top 10 books about fathers and sons

In memoirs by authors from Philip Roth to Michael Frayn, the Dad-Lit genre is always a little oedipal but there is also room for warmer feelings

The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2022

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