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Abbas Beydoun

Abbas Beydoun was born in 1945 in a village in southern Lebanon, near Tyre, the son of a schoolteacher; the family moved to Tyre when he was a child. He studied at the Lebanese University, then obtained a master's degree at the Sorbonne. A journalist, he edited the cultural pages of the daily as-Safīr. He has published more than fifteen collections of poems and novels; the Mediterranean Prize rewarded one of his collections in 2009, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award was given to him in 2017 for a novel.

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