Diane Mazloum

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Diane Mazloum
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Diane Mazloum, 2015
Born1980
Paris, France
Occupationwriter

Diane Mazloum (born 1980) is a French-Lebanese writer. Her novels are set against the history or present in Lebanon.

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Life and education

Diane Mazloum was born in 1980, in Paris, [1] to Lebanese parents who fled from the country because of the Lebanese Civil War. [2] She grew up in Rome and studied astrophysics at Pierre and Marie Curie University [1] in Paris, then moved to Lebanon to study art and design at the American University of Beirut. [2] Later, Mazloum returned to Paris, but she was in Beirut during the 2020 explosion. [3]

Career

Mazloum debuted in 2009 with a graphic novel Nucleus en plein cœur de Beyrouth City. [1] Five years later, she published her first novel Beyrouth, la nuit. [1] Her next novel, L’âge d’or, was awarded the Prix Amic by the Académie Française [4] and the Prix France-Liban, [5] while Une piscine dans le désert (2020) was nominated for Prix Renaudot, Prix Femina and Prix Médicis. [6] Her writing deals with the past and the present of Lebanon. [7]

Works

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