# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hisham-matar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:12.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hisham-matar"
name: "Hisham Matar"
slug: "hisham-matar"
description: "Hisham Matar is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and several other awards. Matar's essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and many other publications. He has also written several other novels."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hisham_Matar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.148997134670487
  historical:           12.85360933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump