Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

Gibran Khalil Gibran (Arabic: جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, ALA-LC: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, pronounced [ʒʊˈbraːn xaˈliːl ʒʊˈbraːn], or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, pronounced [ʒɪˈbraːn]; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced kah-LEEL ji-BRAHN), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages. Born in Bsharri, a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite Christian family, young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khalil Gibran has received more than 546,495 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Khalil Gibran is the 166th most popular writer (up from 184th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Writer.

Khalil Gibran is most famous for his book The Prophet. The book is a collection of poetry and prose that was written in 1923.