Tag: Hisham Matar
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Percival Everett, Hisham Matar on Booker Prize 2024 longlist
Percival Everett and Hisham Matar are on the longlist for the Booker Prize 2024 announced on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. The Booker Prize for Fiction, founded in 1969, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Some of the previous…
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Hisham Matar wins Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024
Hisham Matar’s novel My Friends won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024 on Thursday, June 27, 2024. The Orwell Prize, named in honour of English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic George Orwell, is one of the UK’s most prestigious prizes for political writing. The Orwell Foundation annually awards prizes for work that comes closest…