Amin Maalouf |
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![]() Amin Maalouf by Claude Truong-Ngoc, 2013 |
| Born | (1949-02-25) 25 February 1949 (age 75)
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| Occupation(s) | Writer, scholar and novelist |
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Amin Maalouf (French: [maluf]; Arabic: أمين معلوف; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese author. He studied sociology at the French University in Beirut. He was the director of the Beirut daily newspaper an-Nahar. But, he left the country 1975 at the start of the Lebanese Civil War. He moved to Paris and still lives there today.
Maalouf writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his book Rock of Tanios.
He uses his experiences of civil war and migration in writing his novels. The characters in his novels are wanderers. They may not have just one home country, language, or religions.
Works of fiction
Works of non-fiction
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| 1903–1925 | |
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| 1926–1950 | |
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| 1951–1975 | |
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| 1976–2000 | |
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| 2001–present | |
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