Hisham Matar
My Friends

One rarely encounters such exquisite and convincing pages dedicated to friendship, to the sometimes turbulent but solid relations between people; and in particular here those who have been thrown about by the tribulations of life, those who have been exiled far from their birth places. The whole text emits a powerful and irresistible charm that remains with us long after we have finished it.

Vera Michalski-Hoffmann, jury member