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: 1987.
English: Leo Africanus (Peter Sluglett, 1988, ed. 1992), also published as
Leo the African (ed. 2000).
Samarcande (1988).
French: 1989.
English: Samarkand (Russell Harris, 1992, ed. 1998).
Les Jardins de lumière (1991).
French: 1991.
English: The Gardens of Light (Dorothy Blair, 1996).
Le Premier Siècle après Béatrice (1992).
French: 2002.
English: The First Century after Beatrice (Dorothy Blair, 1993, ed. 1995).
Le Rocher de Tanios (1993).
French: 1993.
English: The Rock of Tanios (Dorothy Blair, 1994, ed. 2000).
Les Échelles du Levant (1996).
(The Piers of the Levant.)
English: Ports of Call (Alberto Manguel, 1999).
Le Périple de Baldassare (2000).
(Baldassare’s Journey.)
French: 2000.
English: Balthasar’s Odyssey (Barbara Bray, 2002).
Les Désorientés (2012).
English: The Disoriented (Frank Wynne, 2020).
Nos frères inattendus (2020).
(Our Unexpected Friends.)
ESSAYS
Les Croisades vues par les Arabes (1983).
French: 1983.
English: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Jon Rothschild, 1984, ed. 1985).
Les Identités meurtrières (1998).
(Deadly Identities.)
French: 1998.
English: On Identity (Barbara Bray, 2000), also published as In the Name of Identity.
Origines (2004).
French: 2004.
English: Origins (Catherine Temerson, 2008).
Le Dérèglement du monde (2009).
French: 2009.
English: Disordered World (George Miller, 2011).
Un Fauteuil sur la Seine (2016).
(A Seat on the Seine.)
Le Naufrage des civilisations (2019).
(The Collapse of Civilisations.)
English: Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way (Frank Wynne, 2020).
OPERA LIBRETTOS
L’Amour de loin (2001).
(Love from Afar.)
Adriana Mater (2004).
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.)
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 17 August 2022.
