Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976.
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Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976.
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Amin Maalouf received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios, as well as the 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.
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Amin Maalouf's father was from the Melkite Catholic community near the village of Baskinta in Ain el Qabou.
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Amin Maalouf studied sociology at the Francophone Universite Saint-Joseph in Beirut.
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Amin Maalouf worked as the director of An-Nahar, a Beirut-based daily newspaper, until the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1975, when he moved to Paris, which became his permanent home.
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Amin Maalouf has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Catholic University of Louvain, the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), the Rovira i Virgili University (Spain), the University of Evora (Portugal), and the University of Ottawa (Canada).
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In 1993, Amin Maalouf was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his novel The Rock of Tanios, set in 19th-century Lebanon.
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Amin Maalouf was elected a member of the Academie francaise on 23 June 2011 to fill seat 29, left vacant by the death of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.
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Amin Maalouf is the first person of Lebanese heritage to receive that honor.
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Amin Maalouf's novels are marked by his experiences of civil war and migration.
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All Amin Maalouf's librettos have been written for the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.
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