Hisham Matar is an acclaimed Libyan-British novelist, essayist and professor. His memoir "The Return" received a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. He is also the author of "In the Country of Men", shortlisted for the Booker Prize; "Anatomy of a Disappearance"; and A Month in Siena (2019). His most recent novel, "My Friends", won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2024.