Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Elias Khoury

 

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Source:  South Central Library System LINKcat online catalog

New York Times, 9/18/2024

Elias Khoury, a Lebanese writer whose sweeping, intricately rendered tales of postwar life in the Middle East won him praise as one of the greatest modern Arabic novelists, and whose editorial leadership of some of Lebanon’s leading publications made him an arbiter of his country’s turbulent political culture, died on Sunday in Beirut. He was 76. 

His daughter, Abla Khoury, confirmed the death, in a hospital, adding that he had been in declining health for several months. 

Mr. Khoury’s writing, both fiction and journalism, often focused on the twin events that defined his world: the Lebanese civil war, from 1975 to 1990, and the plight of Palestinians after the founding of Israel, particularly the tens of thousands who fled to Lebanon in 1948 and after the Six-Day War of 1967. 

As a novelist, Mr. Khoury was often compared to the American writer James A. Michener, who in books like “Hawaii” (1959) and “Texas” (1985) attempted to capture epic swaths of history in an intimate narrative.

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