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Leo the African (1986) is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. Leo Africanus was born in Granada in around 1494 but his family moved to Fez soon after his birth. As a young man he accompanied an uncle on a diplomatic mission to the Maghreb, reaching as far as the city of Timbuktu. In 1517 when returning from a diplomatic mission to Constantinople on behalf of Sultan of Fez Muhammad II he found himself in Rosetta during the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. He continued with his journey through Cairo and Aswan and across the Red Sea to Arabia. On his way back to Tunis in 1518 he was captured by Spanish corsairs. He was taken to Rome and initially imprisoned in the Castel Sant’Angelo but when his captors realised his importance he was freed and presented to Pope Leo X. He was baptized in the Basilica of Saint Peter's in 1520 (taken partially from Winipedia).
The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon's troubled past, by tracing the life of Tanios, a child of the mountains in the 1880′s when the Egyptians Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination and the British & French plotted with and against each other. The novel begins with a recollection of the rock on which Tanios was last seen sitting and weaves together the strands of the fascinating legend of his disappearance (http://readkutub.wordpress.com).
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El premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, 2010 recayó en Amin Maalouf. Hacía mucho tiempo que no estaba de acuerdo con el destinatario de este premio, pero esta vez quedé muy complacida.
Amin Maalouf nació en Beirut en 1949 dentro de la comunidad cristina de los melkites. Estudió Economía y Sociología en la Universidad Francesa de Beirut. Fue corresponsal y director del periódico An Nahar. Como consecuencia de la guerra civil en el Líbano, se exilió a Francia, donde reside desde 1975. Escribe en francés -ganó el prestigioso Goncourt en 1993 con "La roca de Tanios", libro con el que descubrí a este autor y no ha dejado de fascinarme desde entonces.
Sus ensayos y novelas hablan de la convivencia multicultural y el respeto entre culturas, Maalouf es un hombre de matices que cree que la universalidad de los valores no es incompatible con la diversidad de las culturas: “cuando uno ha vivido en el Líbano, la primera religion que uno tiene es la relegión de la coexistencia”.
Si no conocéis este autor os lo recomiento vivamente. Merece la pena.
LEÓN EL AFRICANO. 1986
Basada en la vida de Hasan Bin Muhammed, un intelectual árabe originario de la Granada cristianizada por los Reyes Católicos que terminaría dando con sus huesos en Fez.
El libro está escrito a modo de diario, comenzando por su nacimiento en la ciudad andaluza de Granada y finalizando por sus últimos días en la ciudad papal de Roma. Malouf nos acompaña por ciudades como Granada, Fez, El Cairo y Roma y nos presenta a los personajes más relevantes del momento.
Pero a través de esta historia, conoceremos también otras ciudades realmente interesantes como Tombuctú, Alejandría o Constantinopla. Una exquisita descripción de cada una de estas capitales nos permite adentrarnos en ellas y en los personajes que influirían en el futuro de los países del área mediterránea.
LA ROCA DE TANIOS
Editorial: Alianza
Año publicación: 1993
Temas: Literatura, Narrativa
Temas: Literatura, Narrativa
El momento histórico elegido por Maalouf para situar el relato (basado en, lo que parece ser, un crimen cometido por uno de sus antepasados) es a mediados del siglo XIX, cuando la potencia hegemónica de la zona era el todavía poderoso pero ya decadente Imperio Turco. Decenas de agentes británicos y franceses... intrigan y establecen sus contactos en la zona para minar la influencia de unos y otros siempre buscando el beneficio propio.
Tanios es el hijo del intendente del emir y de la más bella mujer de Kfardabyade, Lamia. La avidez donjuanesca del emir hace que los rumores sobre la verdadera paternidad de Tanios sean demasiado frecuentes. Esto marca el carácter del muchacho, que llevado por su inteligencia inquieta le hace simpatizar con los misioneros ingleses -recién llegados a la zona-y con los antiguos y nuevos enemigos del emir.
Amin Maalouf Web page: http://www.aminmaalouf.org/english/
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Amin Maalouf
Born in Beirut in 1949, Maalouf is the second of four children. His parents married in Cairo in 1945, where Odette, his mother, was born of a Maronite Christian father from the village and a mother born in Turkey. Amin's father was from the Melkite Greek Catholic community. Maalouf's mother was very Catholic and insisted on sending him to a French Jesuit school. He studied sociology at the Francophone Saint-Joseph University in Beirut. Journalist and writer, emigrated in France since 1975. Amin Maalouf gave up his first job ( in the Lebanese daily newspaper An-Nahar, and later in Jeune Afrique) to devote himself entirely to writing. He is autor of many novels which have as a framework the Middle-East, Africa and the Mediterranean world. Among these, "The Rock of Tanios" brought him the Goncourt Price in 1993. In his books he builds bridges between East and West, regions Maalouf says he is part of both. "When one lived in Lebanon, the first religion which one has, is the religion of coexistence." (Taken partially from Winipedia).
Leo the African (1986) is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. Leo Africanus was born in Granada in around 1494 but his family moved to Fez soon after his birth. As a young man he accompanied an uncle on a diplomatic mission to the Maghreb, reaching as far as the city of Timbuktu. In 1517 when returning from a diplomatic mission to Constantinople on behalf of Sultan of Fez Muhammad II he found himself in Rosetta during the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. He continued with his journey through Cairo and Aswan and across the Red Sea to Arabia. On his way back to Tunis in 1518 he was captured by Spanish corsairs. He was taken to Rome and initially imprisoned in the Castel Sant’Angelo but when his captors realised his importance he was freed and presented to Pope Leo X. He was baptized in the Basilica of Saint Peter's in 1520 (taken partially from Winipedia). The Rock of Tanios 1993.
The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon's troubled past, by tracing the life of Tanios, a child of the mountains in the 1880′s when the Egyptians Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination and the British & French plotted with and against each other. The novel begins with a recollection of the rock on which Tanios was last seen sitting and weaves together the strands of the fascinating legend of his disappearance (http://readkutub.wordpress.com).Amin Maalouf Web page: http://www.aminmaalouf.org/english/
Life of Amin Maalouf: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/maalouf.htm
MIEMBRO DE LA ACADEMIA FRANCESA
Premio Goncourt en 1993 por La roca de Tanios, Amin Maalouf ha sido elegido en primera vuelta con un escrutinio de 17 votos sobre un total de 24.
MIEMBRO DE LA ACADEMIA FRANCESA
El escritor franco-libanés Amin Maalouf ha sido elegido el 23 de junio, 2011, miembro de la Academia francesa, creada por Richelieu en 1635, y cuya primera tarea es velar por el respeto a la lengua francesa y redactar su diccionario. Sucede al antropólogo Claude Lévi-Strauss, fallecido en 2009, ha anunciado la Academia.
Premio Goncourt en 1993 por La roca de Tanios, Amin Maalouf ha sido elegido en primera vuelta con un escrutinio de 17 votos sobre un total de 24.
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