Charif Majdalani

Charif Majdalani (born 1960) is a French-Lebanese writer.

Early life and education

Charif Majdalani was born in Beirut in 1960.

Career

Majdalani is a novelist and professor at Saint Joseph University, where he was head of the Department of French Literature from 1999 to 2008.

Between 2005 and 2017, he published six novels in French. According to Suzanne Joinson, writing in The New York Times, "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." and have been translated into several languages.

Other activities

Majdalaini has been a member of the editorial board of L'Orient littéraire and president of the International Writers' House in Beirut.

Recognition and awards

He has won the Phénix Prize (2005), the Tropiques Prize (2008), the François Mauriac Prize of the Académie française (2008), the Jean Giono Prize (2015), the France-Liban prize (2016) and the Moise Khayrallah Prize of the North Carolina State University (2017).