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Amin Maalouf ((アラビア語:أمين معلوف), born 25 February 1949 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-born French〔("Amin Maalouf" ), Modern Arab writers.〕 author. Has lived in France since 1976.〔("About the author" ), with Amin Maalouf.〕 Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel ''Le rocher de Tanios'' (English: ''The Rock of Tanios''). He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2010. He was elected a member of the Académie française on 23 June 2011 to fill seat 29, left vacant by the death of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Maalouf is the first person of Lebanese heritage to receive that honor.〔("Lebanese novelist Amin Maalouf joins elite French Academy" ), ''The Daily Star'', 15 June 2012.〕 ==Biography== Maalouf was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the second of four children. His parents had different cultural backgrounds. His mother was born in Egypt, where her father, a Maronite Christian married to a woman born in Turkey, had gone for work. His Lebanese father was from the Melkite Greek Catholic community. Maalouf's mother was a staunch Catholic who insisted on sending him to Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour, a French Jesuit school. He studied sociology at the Francophone Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. He worked as the director of the Beirut-based daily newspaper ''An-Nahar'' until the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1975, when he moved to Paris, which became his permanent home. Maalouf's first book, ''The Crusades through Arab Eyes'', examined the period on the basis of contemporaneous Arabic sources.〔 In 1993, Maalouf was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his novel ''Le rocher de Tanios'', set in 19th-century Lebanon.〔Reuters (9 November 1993). ("Amin Maalouf wins top French book award" ). ''Toronto Star''.〕〔Annie Coppermann, ("Amin Maalouf, lauréat attendu du prix Goncourt" ) (in French), ''Les Echos'' (9 November 1993).〕 In 2010 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his work, an intense mix of suggestive language, historic affairs in a Mediterranean mosaic of languages, cultures and religions and stories of tolerance and reconciliation. Maalouf has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), the Rovira i Virgili University (Spain), and the University of Évora (Portugal).〔 Besides novels, he has written four texts for musical compositions and several works of non-fiction, of which ''Crusades through Arab Eyes'' is probably the best known.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amin Maalouf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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