Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine (Arabic: ربيع علم الدين‎) (born 1959) is a Lebanese-American painter and writer.[1]

Rabih Alameddine
Born1959
Amman, Jordan
Alma materUniversity of California at Los Angeles
OccupationNovelist

Early life

Alameddine was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese Druze[2] parents (Alameddine himself is an atheist).[3] He grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon, which he left at age 17 to live first in England and then in California. He earned a degree in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master of Business in San Francisco.

Career

Alameddine began his career as an engineer, then moved to writing and painting. The author of four novels and a collection of short stories, Alameddine was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.[4] He lives in San Francisco and Beirut.[5]

In 2014, Alameddine was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and he won the California Book Awards Gold Medal Fiction for An Unnecessary Woman.[6][7]

In 2017, Alameddine won the Arab American Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for The Angel of History[8][9]

Works

References
  1. "Rabih Alameddine: 'Right now in the west, Arabs are the other'". Guardian. January 9, 2015.
  2. Curiel, Jonathan (April 29, 2008). "Alameddine". SFGate, website of the San Francisco Chronicle. sfgate.com. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  3. Devlin, Kieron (Spring 2002). "A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine". Mississippi Review. Vol. 8, No. 2. Archived from the original on August 23, 2010. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  4. Waïl S. Hassan, "Queering Orientalism," Chapter 9 of Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature. Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 199-219.
  5. "My wounds will not be healed in my lifetime: Rabih Alameddine". Livemint. April 6, 2018.
  6. "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  7. "84th Annual California Book Awards Winners". Commonwealth Club of California. commonwealthclub.org. 2015. Archived from the original on February 27, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  8. "2017 Arab American Book Award Winners – Fiction: The Angel of History by Rabin Alameddine". Arab American National Museum. arabamericanmuseum.org. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  9. "Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'". Guardian. October 9, 2016.
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