Elias Khoury is the foremost novelist writing in Arabic today. Born in Beirut in the fateful year of 1948, he published his second novel, Little Mountain (1977).
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Khoury’s best-known novel is Gate of the Sun (1998), which the New York Times labeled “a genuine masterwork.”
It’s true that, most of the time, American reviewers read Arabic literature as if they’re reading the newspaper.
After the defeat in 1967, I felt we had to do more. The war created a wave of refugees fleeing the West Bank.
To be honest, I started to think of myself as a writer when I read Albert Camus’s The Stranger as a schoolboy and discovered that I knew the book by heart.
I used to think that he wrote the way he did because he didn’t have the time to write otherwise. He wanted to get to the end as soon as possible.
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