Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf (Arab: rear RTL أمينمعلوف maʿlūf) is a writer free - Lebanon board born the February 25th 1949 close to Beirut.

He marries Andrée, a teacher for deaf children, with which he has three children: Ruchdi, Tarek and Ziad.

Journalist in the Arabic daily newspaper An Nahar , it covers in particular the catch of Saigon. Seeing the atrocities of the Guerre of Lebanon it is exiled with Paris in 1976 where it becomes Editor association of Jeune Afrique . From now on it is devoted entirely to the writing.

Novels

Leon the African (1986)
Samarkand (1988), which puts in scene the poet and erudite Omar Khayyam
the Gardens of light (1991), biographical novel of the prophet Mani
the first century after Béatrice (1992)
the Rock of Tanios (Prix Goncourt 1993)
Ports of the Levant (1996)
the Tour of Baldassare (2000)

a merchant génois, installed in the East, share in the search of a mythical book which is supposed to reveal the hidden name of God, still known as " the hundredth nom".

Tests

crusades seen by the Arabs , ED. I have Lu, 1983, ISBN 2-290-01916-X
the fatal Identities (1998)
Origines (Prix the Mediterranean 2004), on his family origins, of the Lebanon to Cuba

Booklets of opera

2001 : Love by far of Kaija Saariaho; in August 2000 creation with the Festival of Salzburg
2004: Adriana MATER of Kaija Saariaho; world creation in March 2006 with the Opera of the Bastille (Paris)

Forewords

For a bilingual education: Guide survival with the use of small Europeans , Anna Lietti (Small Library of Payot, 1981)
Of the Divination , Cicéron (Beautiful Letters, 1992)
the Prophet , Khalil Gibran (the Book of Pocket, 1993)

External bonds

Official site
nonofficial Site

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