Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar
was born in New York to Libyan parents and has lived in London since
1986. His debut novel In the Country of Men, shortlisted for the 2006
Booker prize, was followed by Anatomy of a Disappearance in 2011. He has
been a leading commentator on the Arab Spring for publications around
the world 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
Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar
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