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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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- “Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other…”Rabih Alameddine
- “Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.”Rabih Alameddine
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- “The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment…”Robert Anderson
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- “Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.”Naturi Naughton
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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