Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf is an award-winning French Lebanese novelist, essayist and memoirist. His novels have been translated into more than fifty languages and include The Rock of Tanios, which won  France’s most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt. Maalouf is a member of the Académie française and in 2010 was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his entire oeuvre.