JUSTIN MAROZZI
My Friends
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Hisham Matar is the real deal.
If you haven’t yet heard of, or read, this New York-born Libyan writer, this is your chance to discover someone who writes like an angel.
It will be little surprise if , his latest novel, wins an award or three. Matar has a habit of scooping them up. Published in 2017, , a memoir that manages to be at once bleak, redemptive, annihilating and uplifting, won the Pulitzer Prize, in addition to, his debut novel of 2006, was shortlisted for the Man Booker.
