Edmond Jabès
EDMOND JABÈS died in 1991. He settled in France after being expelled from his native Egypt with other Jews during the 1956 Suez Crisis. In 1987 he received France's National Grand Prize for Poetry. His other works available in English include The Book of Questions (2-vol. ed, 1991), The Book of Resemblances (1990-92), and an anthology of his writing, From the Book to the Book (1991).