The Chairman and Trustees of BILNAS are delighted to invite members to the BILNAS Annual Lecture at the British Academy on 7 November at 6.00 pm.
Hisham Matar, the world-renowned American born British-Libyan author and a Trustee of BILNAS will be giving a talk on his latest, much-acclaimed book: My Friends.
Admission is by reservation only and is free to all BILNAS members and their guests. Non-members are also welcome to attend for a charge of £10 per person.
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A recording of the talk will be available on the BILNAS website.
About the Speaker:
Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and The Guardian First Book Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and a Commonwealth First Book Award.
His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published to great acclaim in 2011. His prize-winning memoir, The Return, was published in 2016 and was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Prix du Livre Etranger Inter & Le Journal du Dimanche, the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Germany’s Geschwister Scholl Prize. It was one of The New York Times’ top 10 books of the year.
Matar’s work has been translated into thirty languages. His most recent book is My Friends. He lives in London and New York and is a Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and an honorary council member and trustee of BILNAS.
