Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels The Wrong End of the Telescope, The Angel of History, An Unnecessary Woman, The Hakawati, I, the Divine, and Koolaids. He is also the author of the story collection The Perv. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages, and his writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Paris Review, and other publications. His honors include a John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a Harold Washington Literary Award, a Lambda Literary Award, two Arab American Book Awards, a Northern California Book Award, a Prix Femina, a California Book Award, a Rome Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is co-editing the Penguin Book of International Short Story, forthcoming from Penguin Press in 2026, and his new novel, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), was published in September 2025 and is longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction. Alameddine is currently the Lannan Foundation Visiting Chair at Georgetown University.