Abbas BEYDOUN (Lebanon) is a poet, novelist and journalist. He studied at the Lebanese University in Beirut and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was involved in left-wing politics and spent time in jail as a young man. Since becoming a full-time writer, he has published numerous volumes of poetry. His works have been translated into all the major European languages. Since 1997, Beydoun has been cultural editor of the Beiruti newspaper As-Safir. In 2017, his book Khareef al Bara’a (The Autumn of Innocence) won the Sheik Zayed Book Award.
阿巴斯．貝多恩（黎巴嫩），詩人、小說家與記者，曾就讀於貝魯特黎巴嫩大學及巴黎索邦大學。他曾從事當地的左翼政治運動，年輕時曾因而身陷囹圄。自從成為全職作家以來，貝多恩著有多本詩集，作品獲翻譯成各種主要的歐洲語言。從1997年開始擔任貝魯特報紙As-Safir的文化版編輯。2017年，他的著作《純真的秋天》獲謝赫．扎耶德圖書大獎。