What is Amin Maalouf?
{{Infobox person | name = Amin Maalouf | image = Amin Maalouf par Claude Truong-Ngoc novembre 2013.jpg | caption = Amin Maalouf by Claude Truong-Ngoc, 2013 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1949|02|25}} | birth_place = [[Beirut]], Lebanon | occupation = Writer, scholar and novelist | language = | notableworks = | website = }} '''Amin Maalouf''' ({{IPA-fr|maluf|lang}}; {{lang-ar|أمين معلوف}}; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese author. He studied [[sociology]] at the [[French University in Beirut]]. He was the director of the Beirut daily newspaper ''[[an-Nahar]]''. But, he left the country [[1975]] at the start of the [[Lebanese Civil War]]. He moved to [[Paris]] and still lives there today. Maalouf writes in [[French language|French]], and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the [[Prix Goncourt]] in 1993 for his book ''[[Rock of Tanios]]''. He uses his experiences of civil war and migration in writing his novels. The characters in his novels are wanderers. They may not have just one home country, language, or religions. ==Works of fiction== * ''[[First Century after Beatrice]]'' {{ISBN|0704370514}} * ''[[Leo Africanus (novel)|Leo Africanus]]'' {{ISBN|1561310220}} * ''[[Rock of Tanios]]'' ([[Prix Goncourt]] 1993) {{ISBN|0807613657}} * ''[[Samarkand (novel)|Samarkand]]'' (first published 1988 titled 'Samarcande') {{ISBN|1566562937}} * ''[[Gardens of Light]]'' {{ISBN|1566562481}} * ''[[Ports of Call]]'' (first published 1996 titled 'Les échelles du Levant') {{ISBN|186046890X}} * ''[[Balthasar's Odyssey]]'' {{ISBN|155970702X}} ==Works of non-fiction== * ''[[Crusades through Arab Eyes]]'' {{ISBN|0805208984}} * ''On Identity'' * ''[[In the Name of Identity]]'' {{ISBN|0142002577}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.aminmaalouf.org/ Amin Maalouf Official Site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109032129/http://www.aminmaalouf.org/ |date=2010-01-09 }} {{Prix Goncourt|state=autocollapse}} {{Prix Méditerranée winners}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maalouf, Amin