WRITER

Khalil Gibran

1883 - 1931

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Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, 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 559,642 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 98 in 2019). Khalil Gibran is the 202nd most popular writer (down from 166th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 4th 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.

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Notable Works

The Prophet
1900
El vagabundo, los secretos del corazón, los dioses de la tierra, el jardín del profeta
1985
Le prophète
1970
Der Prophet
1997
Profeta, El
1984
El Profeta
1998
The Prophet
American Prose poems, Lebanese, Prose
Reflections by the Lebanese-American poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.
1900
Prophet
2017
The Prophet
American Prose poems, Lebanese, Prose
Reflections by the Lebanese-American poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.
1900
Broken Wings
2018
Broken Wings
2018
The garden of the prophet
Mysticism, Poetry, American Prose poems
1935 first edition, by William Heinemann Ltd. Printed in Great Britain. This book includes 7 illustrations and 2 page facsimile writings by Kahlil Gibran page 26 last verse: "Call nothing ugly, my friend, save the fear of a soul in the presence of it's own memories" page 32-33 facsimile writings
1923
Prophet
2017
Prophet
American literature
1945
Prophet
Fiction, visionary & metaphysical
2012
Prophet
Fiction, visionary & metaphysical
2012
Prophet
American literature
1945
The garden of the prophet
Mysticism, Poetry, American Prose poems
1935 first edition, by William Heinemann Ltd. Printed in Great Britain. This book includes 7 illustrations and 2 page facsimile writings by Kahlil Gibran page 26 last verse: "Call nothing ugly, my friend, save the fear of a soul in the presence of it's own memories" page 32-33 facsimile writings
1923

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Khalil Gibran ranks 202 out of 7,302. Before him are Luís de Camões, Roald Dahl, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William Blake, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, and Lou Andreas-Salomé. After him are Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Tristan Tzara, Ray Bradbury, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Khalil Gibran ranks 8. Before him are Franz Kafka, John Maynard Keynes, Coco Chanel, Karl Jaspers, Walter Gropius, and Joseph Schumpeter. After him are Anton Webern, Jaroslav Hašek, Nikos Kazantzakis, Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, and Clement Attlee. Among people deceased in 1931, Khalil Gibran ranks 3. Before him are Thomas Edison, and Gustave Le Bon. After him are Anna Pavlova, Otto Wallach, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, Albert A. Michelson, Arthur Schnitzler, Geli Raubal, Lili Elbe, and Joseph Joffre.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran ranks 2 out of 145. Before him are Severus Alexander (208). After him are Ahab (-900), Porphyry (233), Keanu Reeves (1964), Dido (-879), Ulpian (170), Michel Aoun (1935), Charbel Makhlouf (1828), Rafic Hariri (1944), Christina of Bolsena (210), and Fairuz (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Lebanon

Among writers born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran ranks 1. After him are Amin Maalouf (1949), Antipater of Sidon (-200), Mikha'il Na'ima (1889), Philo of Byblos (64), Etel Adnan (1925), Butrus al-Bustani (1819), Charles Malik (1906), Said Akl (1911), Elias Khoury (1948), Sanchuniathon (-150), and Wajdi Mouawad (1968).

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