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Rabih Alameddine
American painter and writer
Rabih Alameddine (Arabic: ربيع علم الدين; born 1959) is an American painter and writer.[1] His 2021 novel The Wrong End of the Telescope won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[2]
Early life
Alameddine was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese Druze[3] parents.
(Alameddine identifies as an atheist).[4]
He grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon, which he left at age 17 to live first in England and then in California to pursue higher education. He earned a degree in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master of Business in San Francisco.
Alameddine is gay.[5]
Career
Alameddine began his career as an engineer, then moved to writing and painting. His debut novel Koolaids, which touched on both the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco and the Lebanese Civil War, was published in 1998 by Picador.[6]
The author of six novels and a collection o