![]() Alameddine is best known for this novel, which tells the story of Aaliya, a Lebanese woman and translator living in war-torn Lebanon. In 2014, Alameddine was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and he won the California Book Awards Gold Medal Fiction for An Unnecessary Woman. He has lived in San Francisco and Beirut and currently teaches at the University of Virginia's creative writing program. The author of six novels and a collection of short stories, Alameddine was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. ![]() His debut novel Koolaids, which touched on both the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco and the Lebanese Civil War, was published in 1998 by Picador. ![]() Career Īlameddine began his career as an engineer, then moved to writing and painting. He earned a degree in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master of Business in San Francisco. He grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon, which he left at age 17 to live first in England and then in California. Early life Īlameddine was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese Druze parents (Alameddine himself is an atheist). ![]() His 2021 novel The Wrong End of the Telescope won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Rabih Alameddine ( Arabic: ربيع علم الدين born 1959) is an American painter and writer. ![]()
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