Charif Majdalani

Charif Madalani
Born 1960
Beirut
Occupation Novelist
Nationality French Lebanese

Charif Majdalani is a French-Lebanese writer. Born in Beirut in 1960, he is a novelist and professor at Saint Joseph University, where he was head of the Department of French Literature from 1999 to 2008. A member of the editorial board of L'Orient littéraire, he is also President of the International Writers’ House in Beirut.[1]

Life

Between 2005 and 2017, he published six novels in French. According to one critic, "Majdalani's novels are much praised in the Francophone world, and with good reason. His seductive prose twists and turns, deftly matching hallucinatory content with form."[2] and have been translated into several languages.

The novels have been shortlisted for many important French and francophone prizes (Renaudot, Fémina, Médicis, Wepler, Jean Giono, Valéry Larbaud, Joseph Kessel, Albert Cohen, du Salon du livre de Genève, de la FNAC, des Libraire). He won the Jean Giono Prize (2015), as well as the Tropiques Prize (2008), the François Mauriac Prize of the French Academy (2008), the France-Liban prize (2016), the Phénix Prize (2005) and the Moise Khayrallah Prize of the North Carolina State University (2017).

Bibliography

Histoire de la grande maison, Seuil, 2005 (Prix Phénix)

  • Das Haus in den Orangengärten, Knaus Verlag 2007
  • La Casa nel giardino degli aranci, Giunti 2010
  • البيت الكبير ، Dar AnNahar, 2008
  • Το Μεγάλο Σπίτι, Castaniotis, 2015

Caravansérail, Seuil, 2007 (Prix Tropiques, Prix François Mauriac de l'Académie française)

  • Ein Palast Auf Reisen, Knaus Verlag, 2009.
  • Moving the Palace, New Vessel Press, 2017 (Moise Khayrallah Prize)[3]

Nos si brèves années de gloire, Seuil, 2012


Le Dernier Seigneur de Marsad, Seuil, 2013

  • سيّد المرصد الأخير , Hachette-Antoine, 2014

Villa des Femmes, Seuil, 2015 (Grand Prix Jean Giono, Prix France-Liban)

  • فيلاّ النساء , Hachette Antoine, 2018

L'Empereur à Pied, Seuil, 2017

References

  1. ↑ "International Writers' House in Beirut". Beyt el Kottab. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  2. ↑ Joinson, Suzanne (2 June 2017). "A Heart-of-Darkness Tale in the North African Desert, With Jokes". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  3. ↑ Popkin, Nathaniel (28 April 2017). "Don Quixote in the Sahara". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
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