Theater video tags: Hisham Matar

Writing Personal and Collective Histories

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In this Brooklyn Book Festival virtual event, authors Hisham Matar, Rania Mamoun, and Omar Khalifah talk about the purpose and urgency of writing about history during times of crisis in a conversation moderated by writer and translator Yasmin Seale. Khalifah’s novel, Sand-Catcher (Coffee House Press, 2024), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Translation
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Brooklyn Book Festival
Hisham Matar
Rania Mamoun
Yasmin Seale
Omar Khalifah
Sand-Catcher
Coffee House Press
Page One
January/February 2025

Hisham Matar

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“In literature you get these magical moments when you can actually feel yourself to be somebody else...and those moments I think are incredibly important for the development of a society because they’re expansive moments.” Hisham Matar, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in autobiography for his debut memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Random House, 2016), talks about the role literature plays in creating social change.

Genre: 
Creative Nonfiction
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Hisham Matar
Pulitzer Prize
2017
memoir
Random House
2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
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