Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury (Arabic: إلياس خوري; born 12 July 1948) is a Lebanese novelist and public intellectual. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize of Palestine for his book Gate of the Sun, and he won the Al Owais Award for fiction writing in 2007. Khoury has also written three plays and two screenplays.
Elias Khoury | |
|---|---|
Khoury at Boston University | |
| Born | 12 July 1948 |
| Nationality | Lebanese |
| Education | PhD in Social History at the University of Paris |
| Notable work | Gate of The Sun |
From 1993 to 2009, Khoury served as an editor of Al-Mulhaq, the weekly cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Nahar. He also taught at universities in Middle Eastern and European countries, and the United States.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.