Amin Maalouf
Lebanese French novelist and author
Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese French author who writes in French and belongs to the Académie française. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1993.
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Born 1949 in Beirut, Lebanon
Influenced by Albert Camus
About Amin Maalouf
Amin Maalouf was born in 1949 and has lived in France since 1976. Arabic is his native language, though he writes in French. His writing has appeared in over 40 languages in translation. He has also worked as a journalist and directed the Beirut newspaper An-Nahar. In 1993 the Prix Goncourt went to him for the novel The Rock of Tanios. The Prince of Asturias Award for Literature followed in 2010. Of his nonfiction works, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes is probably his most widely known. In 2023 he was elected Perpetual Secretary of the Académie française. In the Name of Identity is the only book of his in the BookBits catalog.