What does home mean? How do we experience a sense of belonging through writing? Explore these themes from both a fiction and non-fiction perspective with authors Hisham Matar and Pankaj Mishra.
Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir The Return received a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. He is also the author of In the Country of Men, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Anatomy of a Disappearance and A Month in Siena. His most recent novel, My Friends, won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and nominated for the National Book Award. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Pankaj Mishra’s books include The World After Gaza, Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire. He contributes political and literary essays to the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. In 2024, he was awarded the Weston International Award while, in 2025, The World After Gaza was shortlisted for a Palestine Book Award. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.
