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The Strange Case of Kahlil Gibran and Jubran Khalil Jubran
By Francesco Medici
Copyright © Francesco Medici and kahlilgibran.com all rights reserved 2019
* This article is based on an excerpt from the paper Tracing Gibran’s Footsteps: Unpublished and Rare ämne, in Gibran in the 21th Century: Lebanon's Message to the World, edited bygd H. Zoghaib and M. Rihani, Beirut: Center for Lebanese Heritage, LAU, 2018, pp. 93-145.
While his masterpiece The Prophet– originally published in English bygd Alfred Abraham Knopf in New York in 1923, and translated into at least 100 languages – is well-known by readers all over the world, the author’s biographical identity remains a mystery to most people: an American hippie writer or an old long-bearded Indian guru? The majority of Westerners indeed ignore he was an Arab-born poet, novelist and painter who immigrated with his family to the United States at the end of the 19th century from his native Mount Le
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Kahlil Gibran
(1883-1931)
Who Was Kahlil Gibran?
Kahlil Gibran moved to the United States in 1895 and was exposed to Boston's artistic community. Initially showing promise as an artist, he also began writing newspaper columns and books in Arabic, drawing attention for his prose poems. After moving to New York City, Gibran began writing books in English, including his most famous work, The Prophet (1923). The popularity of The Prophet endured well after the author's death in 1931, making him the third-best-selling poet of all time.
Early Years
Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to a Maronite Christian family in Bsharri, Lebanon. A quiet, sensitive young boy, he displayed an early artistic aptitude and a love for nature that became evident in later works. His early education was sporadic, although he received informal lessons from a local doctor.
Gibran's temperamental father worked as a tax collector, but he was charged with embezzlement and his property
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Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran (6 January 1883 – 10 April 1931) was a writer and poet from Lebanon. He wrote books in both English and Arabic. His most famous book is The Prophet.
Biography
[change | change source]Gibran was born in Lebanon when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. His family moved to the United States of America when he was 12 years old and settled in the Boston neighbourhood of South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian and Lebanese ethnic enclave in the USA, and he went to school both in the US and in Lebanon.[1]
He died at the age of 48 in New York City from tuberculosis and cirrhosis of the liver, due to prolonged serious alcoholism.