Antoine Douaihy

Antoine Douaihy is a Lebanese novelist and poet, born in 1948. He completed his higher education in Paris, gaining a doctorate in Anthropology from the Sorbonne in 1979, and remaining in France until the mid-nineties. He currently works as Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at The Lebanese University. His novels include: The Book of the Current State (1993), The Garden of Dawn (1999), Hierarchies of Absence (2000), Royal Solitude (2001), Crossing Over Rubble (2003), The Bearer of the Purple Rose (2013), longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014, and Drowning in Lake Morez (2014), longlisted for the Prize in 2015.