Hisham Matar has won the first £20,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for his “profound and powerful” memoir The Return (Viking).
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between details Matar’s search, both physical and psychological, for his missing father, and was praised by the judges for “showing what a novelist at the top of his game can do with non-fiction”. The memoir also “gives the reader the same aesthetic, the same satisfaction of the great literary works that enter our lives and stay with us forever”, the judges added.
Read the full story here.
Recent Comments