Gilbert Sinoué (Il Cairo, 18 febbraio 1947) è uno scrittore francese.
Gilbert SinouéA 19 anni si iscrive all'École normale de musique di Parigi dove studia chitarra; in seguito compone canzoni per alcuni interpreti francesi (Dalida, Marais, Marie Laforêt, ...).
Nel 1987 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, La Pourpre et l'olivier ou Calixte 1er le pape Oubli, the life of Pope Callistus I and its tragic fate (the pope was martyred around 222 AD), the text's worth the prize of Jean Heurs best historical novel. In 1989 public
Avicenne ou La route d'Ispahan in which narrates the life of Avicenna (Abu Ali Ibn Sina), physician, Persian philosopher and scientist who lived in the tenth century. His third novel, L'Egyptienne, is the first part of a saga that tells of the still partly mysterious Egypt of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Launched in 1991, the novel won the literary prize Quartier latin.
Sinoué imposes itself quickly as an excellent narrator of his novels, biographies (Le dernier Pharaon, in which he describes the reign of Mehmet Ali, Pasha Ottoman founder of modern Egypt) or White (Le Livre de Saphir, winner of the Prix de libraires 1996, which offers the author the opportunity to launch a dialogue with God, and Les silences de Dieu, who won the 2004 Grand prix littérature de la Police).
addition to being a writer, is also a lyricist and writer.
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