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Born 25 February 1949
Also known as Maalouf Amin, Amin Maluf, Maluf, Amin, Maalouf, Amin, Maalouph, Amin, Maʻlūf, Amīn, Маалуф, Амин, أمين معلوف،, امين معلوف, معلوف، أمين،, Amīn Maʻlūf, Amīn Maʻlūf, أمين معلوف, Amīn al- Maʻlūf, Maalouf
Amin Maalouf (French: [maluf]; Arabic: أمين معلوف Arabic pronunciation: [maʕˈluːf]; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages. Of his several works of nonfiction, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes is probably the best known. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios, as well as the 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the Académie française and was elected its Perpetual Secretary on 28 September 2023
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I came with a very precise mission: to modernize Persia's finances. These men have called upon us because they have faith in our institutions and the way we handle affairs. I have no intention of disappointing them. Nor of misleading them. I come from a Chris…
This is the dazzling, ferociously inventive, larger-than-life story of Tanios, folk hero of the fictional Lebanese village of Kfaryabda, unearthed in fragments and cobbled together by a curious local historian two generations after his mysterious disappearanc…
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