Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese French author who has lived in France since 1976 and writes in French, though Arabic is his native language. His nonfiction includes The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, probably his best-known work, and his novels include The Rock of Tanios, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1993, along with Leo Africanus, Samarkand and The Gardens of Light. Maalouf was elected to the Académie française and became its Perpetual Secretary in 2023.