Suhayl Idris (1925 - February 19, 2008 was a Lebanese novelist, short-story writer, journalist and translator.
Idris studied in Beirut before going on to study in Paris and gain a doctorate from the Sorbonne. His first collection, Ashwaq, was published in 1947.Idriss returned to Beirut in 1952, where he founded al-Adab, a monthly literary journal that became one of the leading periodicals of its kind. Several of his novels have autobiographical themes, including al-Hayy al-Latini (1954) and al-Khandaq al-ghamiq (1958).
Idriss wrote three novels The Latin Quarter (1953), Al-Khandaq Al-Ghamiq (1958) named after a Beirut neighbourhood, and Our Fingers that are Burning (1962) and six collections of short stories. He compiled the French-Arabic dictionary Al-Manhal with Jabbour Abd Al-Nour, and for more than quarter of a century worked with Sheikh Subhi Al-Saleh, and his son Samah, on Arabic-French and Arabic-Arabic editions. He also worked as an instructor in translation and arabization at the Arab University of Beirut.
Idris translated many European works, including most of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.
