WRITER

Elias Khoury

1948 - 2024

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Elias Khoury (Arabic: إلياس خوري; 12 July 1948 – 15 September 2024) was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize of Palestine for his book Gate of the Sun, and he won the Al Owais Award for fiction writing in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elias Khoury has received more than 142,714 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Elias Khoury is the 4,672nd most popular writer (down from 4,388th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 100th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Lebanese Writer.

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  • 16

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  • 1.81

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Notable Works

Gate of the Sun
Palestine, fiction, Lebanon, fiction, Fiction, historical
2006
Little mountain
Fiction, general, Arabic fiction, Translations into English
1989
Yālū
2002
Yalo
Torture, Fiction, Confession (Law)
Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, and then he becomes a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern "Thousand and One Nights", a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all of his sorrows, all of his guilt - and other crimes which his interrogators need him to confess to.
2009
The Holocaust and the Nakba
Arab-israeli conflict, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), Public opinion, israel
2017
Gate of the Sun
Fiction, sagas, Palestine, fiction
1999
Yalo
Torture, Fiction, Confession (Law)
Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, and then he becomes a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern "Thousand and One Nights", a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all of his sorrows, all of his guilt - and other crimes which his interrogators need him to confess to.
2009
Gate of the Sun
Palestine, fiction, Lebanon, fiction, Fiction, historical
2006
Bāb al-shams
1998
Gate of the Sun
Fiction, sagas, Palestine, fiction
1999
The Holocaust and the Nakba
Arab-israeli conflict, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), Public opinion, israel
2017
Little mountain
Fiction, general, Arabic fiction, Translations into English
1989
Yālū
Rape, Robbery, False imprisonment
Yalo was a soldier in Lebanon's civil war. Then he was a deserter, a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler and a rapist. Under torture, he confesses his crimes, his memories, his sorrow and guilt.
2000
al- Wujūh al-bayḍāʼ
Fiction, Lebanon, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
1981
Bāb al-shams
Beirut (Lebanon), Partition of Palestine (1947) fast (OCoLC)fst01353948, Palestinian Arabs
1998
Yalo
Torture, Fiction, Confession (Law)
Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, and then he becomes a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern "Thousand and One Nights", a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all of his sorrows, all of his guilt - and other crimes which his interrogators need him to confess to.
2009
The journey of little Gandhi
Fiction, History, Lebanon Civil War, 1975-1990
""He was born in Mashta Hasan, ran away from his father, who took him to his grandfather's cave, worked in the Miftah bakery in Tripoli, moved to Beirut where he worked in Abu Ayoun's restaurant, and then worked as a shoe shiner. He got married and had two children, Husn and Suad. Husn was a barber, and Suad was sick. He loved life and loved the flavor of it. Alice told him, and the Reverend Amin befriended him, and Davis turned him into a restaurant owner, and the dog died, and Gandhi grieved over the dog more than he grieved for his own father."" "Such was the journey of Abd al-Karim (Husn al-Ahmadi al-Mughayiri), nicknamed Little Gandhi. As told by Alice to the one who tells the story here, it is, however, not so simple. In the hands of Elias Khoury, the tale of this humble shoe shiner living and working in Beirut during the recent Lebanese war is also the story of a city, perhaps a world, coming apart at the seams." "First published in Beirut, where it has gone through several printings, The Journey of Little Gandhi is representative of Khoury's distinctive style and narrative technique as well as his consistent exploration of Beirut as the locus of competing historical and political forces. As such, the book also reflects the author's significant, ongoing contribution to modern Arab literature."--BOOK JACKET.
1989
Ka-annahā nāʾimah
Dreams, Fiction, Young women, fiction
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elias Khoury ranks 4,672 out of 7,302. Before him are Zakaria Tamer, Taylor Caldwell, Süreyya Ağaoğlu, H. C. Artmann, Juan José Arreola, and Stephen Baxter. After him are Michalina Wisłocka, Peter Ackroyd, Paweł Huelle, Nikolai Tikhonov, August Jakobson, and Tobias Wolff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Elias Khoury ranks 410. Before him are Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Alexander McCall Smith, Vinko Jelovac, Oliver Shanti, and Ivan Yarygin. After him are Giuseppe Impastato, Atilio Ancheta, Eliyahu Rips, Carole Laure, Bernadette Peters, and Mike Figgis. Among people deceased in 2024, Elias Khoury ranks 261. Before him are Roy Haynes, Joe Engle, George Rhoden, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Piedad Córdoba. After him are Józef Szmidt, Eugenio Dal Corso, Kagney Linn Karter, Ben Vautier, Lynn Conway, and Eliyahu Rips.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Elias Khoury ranks 104 out of 145. Before him are Elie Saab (1964), Julia Boutros (1968), Mona Hatoum (1952), Fares Fares (1973), Rula Ghani (1948), and Maher Zain (1981). After him are Najwa Karam (1966), Sanchuniathon (-150), Philip K. Hitti (1886), Nadine Labaki (1974), Rabih Abou-Khalil (1957), and Khalil Taha (1932).

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Among WRITERS In Lebanon

Among writers born in Lebanon, Elias Khoury ranks 10. Before him are Mikha'il Na'ima (1889), Philo of Byblos (64), Etel Adnan (1925), Butrus al-Bustani (1819), Charles Malik (1906), and Said Akl (1911). After him are Sanchuniathon (-150), Wajdi Mouawad (1968), Hanan al-Shaykh (1945), and Joumana Haddad (1970).

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