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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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Books by Rabih Alameddine
HAKAWATI
2008
An Unnecessary Woman: A Novel
2014
Koolaids
2015
The Angel of History
2016
I, the Divine
2002