Diane Mazloum

Diane Mazloum (born 1980) is a French-Lebanese writer. Her novels are set against the history or present in Lebanon. She debuted in 2009 with a graphic novel Nucleus en plein cœur de Beyrouth City. Five years later, she published her first novel Beyrouth, la nuit. Her next novel, L’âge d’or, was awarded the Prix Amic by the Académie Française and the Prix France-Liban, while Une piscine dans le désert (2020) was nominated for Prix Renaudot, Prix Femina and Prix Médicis Her writing deals with the past and the present of Lebanon.