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How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction
How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction
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56 minutes
Released:
Mar 24, 2024
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This week, two conversations with the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir The Return. In 2011, Libyan British author Hisham Matar spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his childhood living under Gadhafi’s dictatorship and the search for his father, a political dissident who was imprisoned. Then, from 2020, Matar reflects on his memoir The Return and his book A Month in Siena, which explores the relationship between history, art and grief. Please note: this episode contains difficult subject matter.
Released:
Mar 24, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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