found: Work cat.: Matar, Hisham. The return, 2017.
found: Hisham Matar profile, via Barnard College website, Nov. 16, 2017(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; Awards: 2012 - The Arab American National Museum Book Award Finalist; 2007 - The Arab American National Museum Book Award Winner)
found: Wikipedia, Nov. 16, 2017(Hisham Matar (born 1970) is a Libyan/American writer; was born in New York City. He spent his early childhood in America with his Libyan parents while his father, Jaballa Matar, was working for the Libyan delegation to the United Nations. When he was three years old, his family went back to Tripoli, Libya, where he spent the next six years of his life; in 1979 his father was accused of being a reactionary to the Libyan revolutionary regime and was forced to flee the country with his family. They lived in exile in Egypt where Hisham and his brother completed their schooling in Cairo. In 1986 Matar moved to London; currently lives and writes in London)
found: The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography or Autobiography web page, Nov. 16, 2017(The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, by Hisham Matar; Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo; Hisham Matar lives in London and in New York City, where he teaches at Barnard)
