Amin MAALOUF
Amin Maalouf.
Born on 25 February 1949 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
Categories: Novels,
Essays,
Opera Librettos,
Prefaces,
Other Texts.
NOVELS
Léon l’Africain (1986).
French: 1986;
1987.
English: Leo Africanus (Peter Sluglett, 1988), also published as
Leo the African (ed. 2000).
Turkish: Afrikalı Leo (Sevim Gündüz Raşa, 1993).
Samarcande (1988).
French: 1989.
English: Samarkand (Russell Harris, 1992, ed. 1998).
Turkish: Semerkant (Ali Berktay, 1993).
Les jardins de lumière (1991).
French: 1991;
1994.
English: The gardens of light (Dorothy Blair, 1996).
Turkish: Işık bahçeleri (Saadet Özen, 2004).
Le premier siècle après Béatrice (1992).
French: 2002.
English: The first century after Beatrice (Dorothy Blair, 1993, ed. 1995).
Turkish: Béatrice’ten sonra birinci yüzyıl (Orçun Türkay, 2005).
Le rocher de Tanios (1993).
French: 1993.
English: The rock of Tanios (Dorothy Blair, 1994).
Turkish: Tanios kayası (Olcay Kunal, 1995).
Les échelles du Levant (1996).
(The piers of the Levant.)
French: 1996.
English: Ports of call (Alberto Manguel, 1999).
Turkish: Doğu’nun limanları (Saadet Özen, 1996).
Le périple de Baldassare (2000).
(Baldassare’s journey.)
French: 2000.
English: Balthasar’s odyssey (Barbara Bray, 2002).
Turkish: Yüzüncü ad: “Baldassare’nin yolculuğu” (Samih Rifat, 2000).
Les désorientés (2012).
French: 2014.
English: The disoriented (Frank Wynne, 2020).
Turkish: Doğu’dan uzakta (Ali Berktay, 2012).
Nos frères inattendus (2020).
(Our unexpected friends.)
English: On the isle of Antioch (Natasha Lehrer, 2023).
Turkish: Empedokles’in dostları (Ali Berktay, 2021).
ESSAYS
Les Croisades vues par les Arabes (1983).
French: 1983.
English: The Crusades through Arab eyes (Jon Rothschild, 1984, ed. 1985).
Turkish: Arapların gözüyle Haçlı Seferleri (Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay, 1997);
• Arapların gözünden Haçlı Seferleri (Ali Berktay, 2006).
Les identités meurtrières (1998).
(Deadly identities.)
French: 1998;
2004.
English: On identity (Barbara Bray, 2000), also published as In the name of identity: Violence and the need to belong (ed. 2003).
Turkish: Ölümcül kimlikler (Aysel Bora, 2000).
Origines (2004).
French: 2004.
English: Origins (Catherine Temerson, 2008).
Turkish: Yolların başlangıcı (Aykut Derman and Samih Rifat, 2004).
Le dérèglement du monde: Quand nos civilisations s'épuisent (2009).
French: 2009;
2014.
English: Disordered world (George Miller, 2011).
Turkish: Çivisi çıkmış dünya: Uygarlıklarımız tükendiğinde (Orçun Türkay, 2009).
Un fauteuil sur la Seine: Quatre siècles d’histoire de France (2016).
(A seat on the Seine: Four centuries of French history.)
Turkish: 29 numaralı koltuğun hikâyesi: Fransa tarihinin dört yüzyılı (Orçun Türkay, 2018).
Le naufrage des civilisations (2019).
(The collapse of civilisations.)
English: Adrift: How our world lost its way (Frank Wynne, 2020).
Turkish: Uygarlıkların batışı (Ali Berktay, 2019).
Le Labyrinthe des égarés: L’Occident et ses adversaires (2023).
(The labyrinth of the lost: The West and its enemies.)
Turkish: Labirent: Batı ve hasımları (Ali Berktay, 2024).
OPERA LIBRETTOS
L’amour de loin (2001).
(Love from afar.)
Turkish: Uzaktan aşk (Samih Rifat, 2002).
Adriana Mater (2004).
Turkish: Adriana Mater (Samih Rifat, 2006).
La passion de Simone (2006).
(Simone’s passion.)
Émilie (2010).
PREFACES
Pour une éducation bilingue (1981).
(For a bilingual education.)
Cicéron, Sur la divination (1992).
(Cicero, On divination.)
Khalil Gibran, Le Prophète (1993).
(Khalil Gibran, The Prophet.)
Elif Shafak, La bâtarde d’Istanbul (2007).
(Elif Shafak, The bastard of Istanbul.)
René Maran, Batouala (2021).
New edition of a novel first published in 1921.
OTHER TEXTS
Discours de réception à l’Académie française (2014).
(Reception speech at the French Academy.)
Turkish: Fransız Akademisi’ne kabul konuşması ve Jean-Christophe Rufin’in yanıtı (Orçun Türkay, 2017).
Un automne à Paris (song, 2016).
(An autumn in Paris.)
Set to music by Ibrahim Maalouf.
Video: Un automne à Paris (performed by Louane and Ibrahim Maalouf).
Created on 30 June 2021. Updated on 2 October 2024.
