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Amin Maalouf
Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese French author who has lived in France since 1976. His native language is Arabic, and he writes in French. His works have been translated into over 40 languages.
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culture · Lebanese-born French author (born 1949) · journalist · writer · librettist · science fiction writer · novelist · historian · also Amin Maalouf, Maalouf
Born 25 February 1949 · Q115243
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 3 entries
Arab Times: Amin Maalouf’s ‘Labyrinth of the Lost’
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Awarded FIL Award (2025).
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Maalouf received the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages during the Guadalajara International Book Fair
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded Catalonia International Prize presented by Generalitat of Catalonia (2024).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2024).
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2023· 2 entries
Awarded Vauban Prize (2023).
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Career landmark: perpetual secretary of the French Academy (2023).
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2021· 3 entries
Al Bawaba News: Lebanese Novelist Amin Maalouf Awarded The Seal of Milan
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Publishers Weekly: Books by Amin Maalouf and Complete Book Reviews
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Maalouf was elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer
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2020· 1 entry
Was awarded the National Order of Merit by the French government
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded “Today” Prize (2019).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Gulf News: Amin Maalouf wins award for cultural achievement
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2016· 1 entry
Won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for "Cultural Personality of the Year", the premier category with a prize of 1 million dirhams (approx
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the National Order of Merit (2014).
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar (2013).
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2011· 4 entries
The Daily Beast: Amin Maalouf’s Disordered World Is Swansong of Old Middle East
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AI Alarabiya: Mazen Hayek / Free Tribune: Amin Maalouf and the Civilization of Our Times
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Zawya: Felicitations pour in as Lebanese author Amin Maalouf elected to Academie Francaise
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Career landmark: member of the Académie française (2011).
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2010· 3 entries
Euronews: Amin Maalouf: World economy is not a casino
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2010).
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Received the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his work, an intense mix of suggestive language, historic affairs in a Mediterranean mosaic of languages, cultures and religions and stories of toleranc
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Livre et droits humains award (2009).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Premis Internacionals Terenci Moix (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
The original, French edition of his Origins: A Memoir (Origines, 2004) won the Prix Méditerranée
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the National Order of Merit (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Al Bawaba News: Amin Maalouf’s Novel ‘Samarkand’ Adapted into Small Screen
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Women Novelists’ Award for Balthasar's Odyssey (2000).
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1999).
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Awarded Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded International Nonino Prize (1998).
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1993· 3 entries
Awarded Prix Goncourt for The Rock of Tanios (1993).
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Maalouf was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his novel The Rock of Tanios (French: Le rocher de Tanios), set in 19th-century Lebanon
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For his novel The Rock of Tanios, as well as the 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
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1989· 4 entries
“Inglés: «What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself.”
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“Inglés: «We are not guests on this planet, it belongs to us as much as we belong to it, its past belongs to us, as does its future”
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“Si la muerte no fuera inevitable, el hombre habría perdido su vida entera evitándola. No habría arriesgado, ni intentado, ni emprendido, ni inventado, ni construido nada. La vida habría sido una perpetua convalecencia.”
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“Inglés: «I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return.”
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Paul Flat Prize (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Franco-Arabic Friendship Award (1986).
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1975· 1 entry
When he moved to Paris, where he first became a journalist for an economic newspaper
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-02-25.
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