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About Rabih Alameddine
Lebanese painter and writer
Rabih Alameddine is a Lebanese painter and writer known for his novels and essays. His work has received major recognition, including the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction. He is best known as a novelist, with The Wrong End of the Telescope winning the PEN/Faulkner Award and The True True Story of Raja the Gullible taking the National Book Award. As a writer and painter, he is associated with literary work that has earned broad critical attention.
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- “Ah, the deliciousness of discovering a masterwork. My heart begins to lift. I can see myself sitting all day…”Rabih Alameddine
- “Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is i…”Rabih Alameddine
- “...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Eve…”Rabih Alameddine
- “I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood -…”Rabih Alameddine
Belonging: more sayings
- “Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually be…”Charles Duhigg
- “Woman's fear of the female Self, of the experience of the numinous archetypal Feminine, becomes comprehensibl…”Erich Neumann
- “One who has just learnt a foreign language, constantly resorts, while talking, to words belonging to that lan…”Abhijit Naskar
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- “I wonder if the world’s fascination has less to do with the flower itself, and more with the muck that it flo…”Forrest Curran
- “Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circums…”Daisaku Ikeda
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Books by Rabih Alameddine
HAKAWATI
2008
An Unnecessary Woman: A Novel
2014
Koolaids
2015
The Angel of History
2016
I, the Divine
2002