Elias Khoury
إلياس خوري
Writer
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Lebanon
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Beirut,
Lebanon
Major Lebanese novelist whose book Gate of the Sun is widely regarded as a landmark of modern Palestinian and Lebanese literature.
Elias Khoury's 1998 novel Gate of the Sun, chronicling Palestinian displacement across generations, became one of the most acclaimed Arabic novels of its era, and he remained a prominent public intellectual until his death in 2024.
Representation
Independent