Who is Khalil Gibran?

Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese painter, poet, essayist and philosopher.  Khalil Gibran, christened as Gibran Khalil Gibran, was born on January 6, 1883 in the ancient town of Bsharri, in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate located in the Kadisha Valley in northern Lebanon.  In 1905, Gibran had his first work published. Titled ‘Nubthah fi Fan Al-Musiqa’, it was a passionate, but immature work about music. Concurrently, he began studying English with Haskell. In 1906, he had his second work, ‘Ara’is al-Muruj’ published. It contained three short stories and was later translated as ‘Nymphs of the Valley’ and also as ‘Spirit Brides and Brides of the Prairie’. From the same year, he also started a column, titled ‘Dam’a wa’btisama’. Khalil Gibran is best remembered for his 1923 publication ‘The Prophet’. In this book, the poet talks about twenty-six different subjects such as love, marriage, children, work, death, self-knowledge, eating and drinking, joy and sorrow, buying and selling, crime and punishment, reason and passion through Prophet Almustafa’s conversation with a group of people. The first edition of the book, written in English, was sold out within two years and until 2012, it had sold nine million copies in its American edition alone. It has been translated into forty languages.

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