Maalouf is the first person of Lebanese heritage to receive that honor. He was elected a member of the Académie française on 23 June 2011 to fill seat 29, left vacant by the death of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. In 2010 he received the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his work, an intense mix of suggestive language, historic affairs in a Mediterranean mosaic of languages, cultures and religions and stories of tolerance and reconciliation. In 2004, the original, French edition of his Origins: A Memoir ( Origines, 2004) won the Prix Méditerranée. In 1993, Maalouf was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his novel The Rock of Tanios (French: Le rocher de Tanios), set in 19th-century Lebanon. Maalouf has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), the Rovira i Virgili University (Spain), the University of Évora (Portugal), and the University of Ottawa (Canada). His book Un fauteuil sur la Seine briefly recounts the lives of those who preceded him in seat #29 as a member of the Académie française. Īlong with his nonfiction work, he has written four texts for musical compositions and numerous novels. Maalouf's first book, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (1983), examines the period on the basis of contemporaneous Arabic sources. Maalouf worked as the director of An-Nahar, a Beirut-based daily newspaper, until the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1975, when he moved to Paris, which became his permanent home. He is the uncle of trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf. He studied sociology at the Francophone Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. Maalouf's mother was a staunch Maronite Catholic who insisted on sending him to Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour, a French Jesuit school. She was born in Egypt and lived there for many years before coming back to Lebanon she lived in France until her passing in 2021 at the age of 100 years. His mother, Odette Ghossein, is Lebanese from the Metn Village of Ain el Kabou. His father was from the Melkite Catholic community near the village of Baskinta in Ain el Qabou. His parents had different cultural backgrounds.
Maalouf was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and grew up in the Badaro cosmopolitan neighborhood, the second of four children.
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