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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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- “I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.”Rabih Alameddine
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- “I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.”Rabih Alameddine
- “In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd bui…”Rabih Alameddine
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- “Each word's evocative value or virtue, its individual power of touching springs in the mind and of initiating…”C.E. Montague
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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