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SUMMARY: Girton College 57th Founders’ Memorial Lecture with Hisham Mata
 r: Life and Work - Hisham Matar\, Former Girton College Visiting Fellow
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DESCRIPTION:Former Visiting Fellow\, Hisham Matar\, will be speaking at Gi
 rton College for the 57th Founders' Memorial Lecture about his life and wo
 rk. \n\nDoors open at 5:45pm for 6pm\n\n--------------\n\nHisham Matar is 
 a Libyan Author\, born in New York City\, brought up in Tripoli and Cairo\
 , and has spent most of his life in England\, now residing in both Britain
  and America. He was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in ‘Biography or Au
 tobiography’ for a memoir The Return: Fathers\, Sons and the Land in Bet
 ween. \n\nHis two novels also embrace the political and personal dimension
 s of repression\, abduction and exile. The first\, In The Country of Men\,
  set in Tripoli in 1979\, was short-listed for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. 
 The second\, The Anatomy of a Disappearance\, partly written as a Visiting
  Fellow at Girton\, was one of the best books of 2011 for The Independent\
 , Chicago Tribune and many others.\n\nAn astute political commentator on L
 ibyan affairs\, a disarming interpreter of love and loss\, The Guardian’
 s Rachel Cooke  observes: ‘Matar has a reserve that only makes his way w
 ith intimacy all the more moving’. Her colleague\, Lisa Appignanesi \, d
 escribes Hisham as a ‘brilliant observer of the inner world’ [who] ‘
 writes about the intricacies of love in the family like no-one else’.\n\
 nThe Founders’ Memorial Lecture\, established in 1928\, celebrates the v
 alues that underpinned the Foundation of Girton College: equality and incl
 usion\, excellence in diversity\, radical thinking and an ethic of care.
LOCATION:Stanley Library\, Girton College\, Huntingdon Road\, Cambridge\, 
 CB3 0JG
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