Alexandre najjar biography

Alexandre Najjar (born February 5, 1967) is a.
Alexandre Najjar is a Lebanese and French writer, lawyer and literary critic.
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Dr. Alexandre Najjar

Dr. Alexandre Najjar, Francophone Writer & Novelist, Winner of the Prix de la Fondation Hachette, Lawyer, Lebanon.

Dr. Alexandre Najjar was born in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1967. He is an Attorney at law and a writer. He is a member of the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) ; he was the representative of Lebanon in the Legal Committee of UNESCO organization and an advisor to the Lebanese Ministry of Culture (1999-2009).

He is the author of over thirty books (novels, memoirs, biographies…) that have been translated into more than twelve languages, including Les Exilés du Caucase (Grasset), Le Roman de Beyrouth (Plon), Le Dictionnaire amoureux du Liban (Plon), L’École de la Guerre / The School of War(Telegram), Le Censeur de Baudelaire (Balland), Phénicia (Plon), Gibran (Pygmalion), Les Anges de Millesgarden (Gallimard) and Berlin 36 (Plon).

He is the recipient of the first Bourse de l’écrivain award from the Lagardère Foundation, the 2009 Prix Méditerranée and the Grand Prix de la Francophonie awarded by the Académie Française.

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Born in 1967 in Lebanon, Alexandre Najjar is considered to be one of the best Lebanese novelists of his generation.

He is the author of a number of narratives:
La Honte du survivant, Naaman, 1989.
Comme un aigle en dérive, Publisud, 1993.
L’école de la guerre, Balland, 1999 – Available in English, “The School of War”, Telegram Books, 2006.
Le Roman de Beyrouth, Plon, 2005.

of poems,

of a distinguished biography of Kahlil Gibran, the author of The Prophet (Pygmalion, 2002),

and of three historical novels:
Les Exilés du Caucase (Grasset, 1995) and
L’Astronome (Grasset, 1997).
Athina (Grasset, 2000).

He was awarded a number of litterary and cultural prizes, including:

Bourse de l’Ecrivain from the Fondation Hachette (1990).
Prix de poésie de la Ville de Paris (1990).
Prix du Palais littéraire (1994).
Prix littéraire de l’Asie, awarded by the French-speaking Writers Association (1996).
The France-Liban Prize (1998).
The Amsterdam Prize (1999). etc.
Alexandre Najjar is a lawyer and literary critic in two French-speak
Alexandre Najjar was born in Beirut in 1967, and is both a lawyer and a writer. Winner of the Prix de la Fondation Hachette in 1990, he is the author of three historical novels published by Grasset (including Les Exilés de Caucase, which won the Prix de l'Asie in 1996), of a narrative of the Lebanese civil war, L'Ecole de la guerre (Balland, 1999), and of an acclaimed biography of the man who persecuted Baudelaire and Flaubert: Le Procureur de l'Empire (Balland, 2001). He is considered to be "one of the most talented Francophone writers of his generation."