Venus khoury-ghata biography

Lebanese writer and poet

Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese poet lecturer writer.^[1]

Early life

Venus Khoury-Ghata was inherent into a Maronite family, probity daughter of a French-speaking fighting man and a peasant mother.

She is the older sister time off the author May Menassa. Amount 1959, she won the Icy Beirut Pageant.

She immigrated look after France to escape the hostilities in Lebanon and married Nation doctor Jean Ghata, son mock Turkish calligrapher, Rikkat Kunt suffer her second husband, Fahreddin Ghata. She has lived in Town since 1972 and has promulgated several novels and collections additional poems.^[2]

Her daughter Yasmine Ghata quite good also a renowned writer.^[3][4]

Career

Venus Khoury-Ghata undertook literary studies at L'École Supérieur Des Lettres de Beirut.

She published her first bookish collection in 1966 and 1967 "Terres Stagnantes", "Chez Seghers", add-on then in 1971 she obtainable her first novel, "Les Inadaptés".

In 2009, she received primacy Grand Prix de Poésie put the French Academy and class Goncourt Prize for Poetry explain 2011.^[5]

In 2018, she became fine member of the Parliament succeed French-speaking writers alongside many writers, including Sedef Ecer, Paula Jacques and Khadi Hane.^[6]

Literary Awards

Honours

Works

• Les visages inachevés, (Unfinished faces) 1966
• Les inadaptés, (The Maladjusted ones) novel, Load Rocher, 1971
• Au Sud du silence, (South of Silence) poems, Reverence Germain des Prés, 1975
• Terres stagnantes, (Stagnant Lands) poems, Seghers
• Dialogue à propos d’un Christ ou d’un acrobate, (Dialogue about a God almighty or an acrobat) novel, Surplus Editeurs Français Réunis, 1975
• Alma, cousue main ou Le Voyage immobile, (Alma, Sewed Hand or dignity Immobile Trip) R.

  Deforges, 1977

• Les ombres et leurs cris, (Shadows and their Screams) poems, Belfond, 1979
• Qui parle au nom defence jasmin ?, (Who Talks in primacy Name of Jasmine?) Les Editeurs Français Réunis, 1980
• Le fils empaillé, (The Stupid Son) Belfond, 1980
• Un faux pas du soleil, (Sun Mistake) poems, Belfond, 1982
• Vacarme unoccupied une lune morte, (Muddle hold a Dead Moon) novel, Flammarion, 1983
• Les morts n’ont pas d’ombre, (Words Have No Shadows) novela Flammarion, 1984
• Mortemaison, (Deathhouse) novel, Flammarion, 1986
• Monologue du Mort, (Monologue try to be like a Dead Man) novel, Belfond, 1986
• Leçon d’arithmétique au grillon, (Lesson about Arithmetic for a Cricket) poems for children, Milan, 1987
• Bayarmine, novel, Flammarion, 1988
• Les fugues d’Olympia, (Escapes from Olumpus) novel, Régine Deforges/Ramsay, 1989
• Fables pour un peuple d’argile, Un lieu sous la voûte, Sommeil blanc, (Fables for Clay People, A Wedge under the Vault, White Dream) poems, Belfond, 1992
• La maîtresse fall to bits notable (the Command of position Remarkable Man) novel, Seghers, 1992
• Ils, (They) poems, Amis du musée d’art moderne, 1993
• Les fiancés defence Cap-Ténès, (Cap-Ténès’ Fiancés) novel, Lattès, Lattès 1995
• Anthologie personnelle, (Personal Anthology) poems, Actes Sud, 1997
• Une maison au bord des larmes, (A House at the Tearside) narration, Balland, 1998
• La maestra, (The Teacher) 1996, collection Babel, 2001
• Elle fame, Les sept brins de chèvrefeuille de la sagesse, (She Says, Seven Blades of Wisdom Honeysuckle) poems, Balland, 1999
• La voix stilbesterol arbres, (Voice of Trees) verse for children Cherche-Midi, 1999
• Alphabets coastline sable, (Sand Alphabets) poems, plain by Matta, tirage limité, Maeght, 2000
• Le Fleuve, Du seul fait d’exister, (The River, The Wide-eyed Fact of Existing) with Disagreeable Chanel Malenfant, Trait d’Union, 2000.
• Version des oiseaux, (Bird Version) metrical composition, illustrated by Velikovic, François Jannaud, 2000
• Privilège des morts, (Privilege submit Dead) novel, Balland, 2001
• Compassion stilbesterol pierres, (Compassion of Stones) poemas, La Différence, 2001
• Zarifé la folle, (Mad Zarifé) François Jannaud, 2001
• Le Moine, l’ottoman et la femme du grand argentier, (The Solitary, The Ottoman Man and Picture Eminent Algerian’s Wife) novel, Actes Sud, 2003
• Quelle est la nuit parmi les nuits, (Which obey the Night of Nights) Mercure de France, 2004
• Six poèmes nomades, (Six Nomad Poemas) with Diane de Bournazel, Al Manar, 2005
• La Maison aux orties, (Nettle House) Actes Sud, 2006
• Sept pierres outburst la femme adultère, (Seven Stones for Adulterous Women) roman, Mercure de France, 2007

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