Amin Maalouf
Forfatter af The Crusades through Arab Eyes
Om forfatteren
Amin Maalouf was formerly director of the leading Beirut daily, an-Nahar, and editor of Jeune Afrique.
Værker af Amin Maalouf
Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century (2009) — Forfatter — 245 eksemplarer
Labirent – Batı ve Hasımları 3 eksemplarer
غرق الحضارات 2 eksemplarer
El primer siglo despues de Beatrice / The First Century After Beatrice (Biblioteca De Autor) (Spanish Edition) (2003) 2 eksemplarer
Naša neočekivana braća 2 eksemplarer
Maalouf Amin 1 eksemplar
سلالم الشرق 1 eksemplar
Een doolhof vol verdwaalden 1 eksemplar
IsIk Bahceleri 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Raft of the Medusa: Five Voices on Colonies, Nations, and Histories (1993) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Maalouf, Amin
- Fødselsdato
- 1949-02-25
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Líban
- Land (til kort)
- Lebanon
- Fødested
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Bopæl
- Paris, France
île d'Yeu, Vendée, France - Uddannelse
- Saint Joseph University, Beirut
Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour - Erhverv
- journalist
novelist
librettist - Organisationer
- Académie française (2011)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Méditerranée (2004)
Finaliste du prix international Man Booker (2011)
Prix Al Owais (2011)
Prix Goncourt en 1993, pour Le rocher de Tanios
Prix Européen de l'Essai, en 1999
Académie française, 23/06/2011 (vis alle 14)
Prix de l'amitié franco-arabe, en 1986 pour Léon l'africain
Prix France-Liban , en 1986 pour Léon l'africain
Prix des Maisons de la presse, en 1988 pour Samarcande
Prix Européen de l'Essai, en 1999 pour Les identités meurrières
Prix Jacques Audibert-ville d'Antibes, en 2000 pour Le périple de Baldassare
Prix Méditerranée, en 2004 pour Origines
Prix Prince des Asturies des lettres ,en 2010
Prix du public de l'Algue d'or (Saint-Briac-sur-Mer), en 2013 pour Les désorientés
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Nuestros inesperados hermanos af Amin Maalouf
Alec, un dibujante de mediana edad, ha decidido vivir en un islote diminuto de la costa atlántica para encontrar descanso e inspiración. Su única vecina es Eve, una novelista de éxito, aunque se evitan mutuamente. Hace semanas que llegan noticias constantes de un inminente conflicto nuclear y de atentados terroristas a gran escala. Un día, una avería interrumpe todas las comunicaciones y tanto Alec como Eve se ven forzados a salir de su soledad para encontrar respuestas. A Alec le ayuda su amigo Moro, consejero del presidente de Estados Unidos. Con él descubre la existencia de unos "inesperados hermanos", una misteriosa civilización que se proclama heredera de la antigua Grecia y que ha salido de su ocultamiento para salvar la vida de la humanidad con sus conocimientos médicos avanzados. A través de este cuento moderno de gran fuerza dramática, Amin Maalouf nos invita a reflexionar sobre nuestro futuro y, en medio del horror, abre una puerta a la esperanza. Después de todo, tal vez aún estemos a tiempo de escuchar nuestras verdades más antiguas.… (mere)
All I knew before reading this fictional biography was that St. Augustine converted from this faith to Christianity, so this book was a revelation. Not much is known about Mani's life historically, other than the highlights. He formed his philosophy [?]/Syncretic dualistic religion [?], Manichaeism, promulgated it under the protection of one ruler of ancient Persia, and was killed by a successor. Beautifully written and, I thought, logically, for its subject. He brought Mani alive to me.
The Disoriented opens with a phone call from an "Old Country", about a dying friend who hasn't talked to Adam, the protagonist, for 25 years. Immediately, Adam drops everything and goes back "home" on a "pilgrimage" of a sort, to find pieces of his lost youth, as well as to try to get his old group of friends scattered across the world back together for one last time.
This book was nothing like I imagined. I expected a much heavier read, but I got a breezy, enjoyable fiction that wasn't lacking in substance. There were many beautiful paragraphs about heavy, important topics that are very close to my heart. Even though I'm not from the Middle East, I found so many similarities to the part of the world that I'm from. It is a region that went through a similar crisis and transformed very much like author's native Lebanon (which remains unnamed in this book).
The parts that describe leaving one's homeland and coming back to face the ones who never left were especially powerful. There is a particular dynamics between those who leave and those who stay, to quote E. Ferrante, that Amin Maalouf masterfully recreated in this novel. But, as I said, there is a certain effervescent quality in his writing, written by an old-world erudite without pretentiousness, that is rare in contemporary fiction. The book has such a beautiful humanist outlook. I found it very refreshing.
If I'd change anything it is the end, but the more I think about it, the more it is exactly as it should be.… (mere)
This book was nothing like I imagined. I expected a much heavier read, but I got a breezy, enjoyable fiction that wasn't lacking in substance. There were many beautiful paragraphs about heavy, important topics that are very close to my heart. Even though I'm not from the Middle East, I found so many similarities to the part of the world that I'm from. It is a region that went through a similar crisis and transformed very much like author's native Lebanon (which remains unnamed in this book).
The parts that describe leaving one's homeland and coming back to face the ones who never left were especially powerful. There is a particular dynamics between those who leave and those who stay, to quote E. Ferrante, that Amin Maalouf masterfully recreated in this novel. But, as I said, there is a certain effervescent quality in his writing, written by an old-world erudite without pretentiousness, that is rare in contemporary fiction. The book has such a beautiful humanist outlook. I found it very refreshing.
If I'd change anything it is the end, but the more I think about it, the more it is exactly as it should be.… (mere)
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- Værker
- 37
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 9,970
- Popularitet
- #2,387
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 222
- ISBN
- 537
- Sprog
- 28
- Udvalgt
- 27
