Hisham Matar’s ‘The Return’ Makes Costa Book Awards Shortlist

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The Costa Book Awards have announced their 2016 shortlists; in the four-book biography section is Libyan author Hisham Matar’s The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between:

hisham matar’s ‘the return’ makes costa book awards shortlist

The shortlists — which come in five sections of four books each — made waves for being “female dominated,” by shortlisting a somewhat larger proportion of women (14, to six men). The Telegraph somehow ascribed this to “the internet.”

In any case, the three judges of the Biography category — biographer and journalist Matthew Dennison; author Mary Loudon; and author and critic Sarra Manning — called The Return, “A brilliant, moving and beautiful book about family, longing and exile.”

The full Biography shortlist:

Keggie Carew for Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Chatto & Windus)

John Guy for Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years (Viking)

Hisham Matar for The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Viking)

Sylvia Patterson for I’m Not with the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music (Sphere)

This year’s winners will be announced on January 3, 2017.

Also read:

Hisham Matar’s ‘The Return’ Makes Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2016 Shortlist

‘The Return’: Hisham Matar’s Greatest Book So Far

Books Inside Books: An Infinite History of Modern Libya

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