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Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf's book at the Comedie in Montpellier, May 23, 2009

Activity (s)	Writer
Birth	25 February 1949 Beirut
Writing language	French
Genre (s)	novels, essays, opera libretto
Honors	- 1993 Prix Goncourt for Rock of Tanios - Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature 2010

Amin Maalouf ( Arabic : Biography

Born in Beirut, the first years of childhood Amin Maalouf take place yet in Egypt , his adopted home of his maternal grandfather. Back in Lebanon, his family moved into a cosmopolitan Beirut , where they live most of the year, but spend the summer in Machrah, Village of Mount Lebanon which Maalouf originate.

His father is a prominent journalist in Lebanon, also a poet and painter from a family of teachers and school principals. His ancestors, Catholic, converted to Protestantism in the nineteenth ^century.

Amin's mother comes from a French Catholic family, which has a branch in Istanbul, a city highly symbolic in the imagination of Amin Maalouf, the only one mentioned in each of his works .

Her official blog, as of March 13, 2010, refers to "health problems", without further specification .

He received the Prince of Asturias award 2010 letters .

Influences and inspirations

The author said he was influenced, among others, by the works of Thomas Mann , Albert Camus , Leo Tolstoy , Marguerite Yourcenar , Charles Dickens , Stefan Zweig , and by Omar Khayyam 's poetry and the Arabic language .

Amin Maalouf's novels are marked by his experiences of civil war and immigration. They are characterized (among others) by passengers traveling between lands, languages and religions. In his book The Name of Identity , he outraged human behavior when self-assertion so often goes hand in hand with the denial of the other. Humanist, Amin Maalouf is convinced that we can remain faithful to the values which he is the heir, without being threatened by the belief that other values are carriers.

Works

Novels

Leo Africanus , Jean-Claude Lattes, 1986 ( ISBN 2-7096-0493-0 ). price of Franco-Arab Friendship 1986. Fictionalized biography of Hassan al-Wazzan, said Leo Africanus, a businessman, diplomat and writer Arabo-Andalusian.
Samarkand , Jean-Claude Lattes, 1988 ( ISBN 9782709606813 ). Prices of Homes Press , 1988. Fictionalized biography of the poet and scientist Omar Khayyam.
The Gardens of Light , Jean-Claude Lattes, 1991 ( ISBN 9782709608572 ). Fictionalized biography of the prophet Mani.
The First Century After Beatrice , Grasset, 1992 ( ISBN 2-246-46261-4 )
The Rock of Tanios , Grasset, 1993 ( ISBN 2-246-46271-1 ) ( Prix Goncourt in 1993 )
The Levant , Grasset, 1996 ( ISBN 2-246-49771-X )
Baldassare's Journey , Grasset, 2000 ( ISBN 2-246-58601-1 ). A merchant from Genoa, located in the East, goes in search of a mythical book that is supposed to reveal the hidden name of God, yet said "the hundredth name" (Prix Jacques Audibert-Antibes 2000).

Trial

The Crusades through Arab eyes , Jean-Claude Lattes, 1983 ( ISBN 2-7096-0547-3 )
Identities deadly , Grasset, 1998 ( ISBN 2-246-54881-0 )
Origins , Grasset, 2004 ( ISBN 9782246634416 ) ( Mediterranean Prize 2004 )
Disruption of the world : When our exhausted civilizations, Grasset, 2009 ( ISBN 978-2-246-68151-9 )

Booklets opera

2001 : L'Amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho ; inception in August 2000 at the Salzburg Festival. Edition: Grasset, 2001 ( ISBN 2-246-60301-3 )
2004 : Adriana Mater by Kaija Saariaho ; world premiere in March 2006 at the Opera Bastille (Paris). Edition: Grasset, 2006 ( ISBN 2-246-70631-9 )
2006 : La Passion de Simone , an oratorio by Kaija Saariaho , premiered 2006 in Vienna
2010 : Emily of Kaija Saariaho ; world premiere in 2010 at the Opera de Lyon

Prefaces

For bilingual education: A survival guide for use by small European Anna Lietti, Payot, Payot Small Library, 1981 ( ISBN 2-228-90042-7 )
Of Divination, Cicero , Les Belles Lettres, 1992 ( ISBN 978-2-251-33916-0 )
The Prophet, Khalil Gibran , Le Livre de Poche, 1993 ( ISBN 9782253064091 )