Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine (Arabic: ربيع علم الدين) (born 1959) is a Lebanese-American painter and writer. He was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese Druze[1] parents (Alameddine himself is an atheist).[2] He grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon, which he left at age 17 to live first in England and then in California. A lover of mathematics, he earned a degree in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master of Business in San Francisco. He began his career as an engineer, then moved to writing and painting. The author of four novels and a collection of short stories, Alameddine was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. He lives in San Francisco and Beirut.
Works
- Koolaids: The Art of War (1998)
- The Perv: Stories (1999)
- I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (2001)
- The Hakawati (2008)
- An Unnecessary Woman (2014)
- The Angel of History: A Novel (2016)
Awards and honors
- 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman[3]
- 2014 California Book Awards Gold Medal Fiction winner for An Unnecessary Woman[4]
References
- ↑ SFGate
- ↑ Mississippi Review
- ↑ "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
- ↑ "84th Annual California Book Awards Winners".
External links
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