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Join us to hear author Hisham Matar in conversation about his Booker Prize longlisted latest novel My Friends, described by the Judges as a ‘complex and unsentimental meditation on what friendship means and a searingly moving exploration of how exile impacts those who are forced to live in this state of loss.’ We are thrilled Hisham Matar is going to be joining us here in Summertown – don’t miss this opportunity to hear him in conversation. Read more about My Friends here.
Tickets are £5 including a glass of wine or soft drink.
About the author: Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo, and has lived most of his lift in London. His memoir The Return won the 2017 Pulitzer prize among others and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford and the Costa Biography Prize. He is the author of the novels In the Country of Men, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Anatomy of a Disappearance and his most recent book is A Month in Siena. Hisham Matar is a Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.