Matar, Hisham, 1970-

LC control no.	n 2006064193
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR6113.A87
Personal name heading	Matar, Hisham, 1970- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	מטאר, הישאם, 1970-
Associated country	United States Great Britain
Birth date	1970
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Affiliation	Goldsmiths' College Girton College (University of Cambridge)
Profession or occupation	Novelists Architects
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. Cannot identify with: Matar, Hisham Jab'Allah; nr98035587
Found in	Matar, Hisham. In the country of men, 2007: CIP t.p. (Hisham Matar) Pulp.Net WWW homepage, viewed Aug. 23, 2006: My literary top ten page (Hisham Matar; b. in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents; spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo; he has lived in the UK since 1986; In the country of men is his first novel; novelist, poet, essayist) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Matar, Hisham; fiction writer, architect; born 1970 in New York, United States; degree in architecture from Goldsmiths College, London (1986); his first novel, In the Country of Men, was a huge success (2006), published in twenty-two languages, short-listed for Man Booker Prize and Guardian First Book Award (2006); was awarded Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, Italian Premio Vallombrosa Gregor von Rezzori, and Arab American Book Award (2007); received the Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Visiting Fellow Commoner at Girton College, University of Cambridge (2008))
National bib agency no.	1049G2406E
Associated language	eng
Quality code	nlc