GIBRAN @ 90: KGS SET TO EXHIBIT 25 PAINTING WORKS OF KHALIL GIBRAN DURING IBADAN BOOK CLUB APRIL MONTHLY READING
In a bid to commemorate 90 years of Khalil Gibran’s death, Khalil Gibran Society (KGS) will be exhibiting twenty five painting works of Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist at the April reading of the Ibadan Book Club which has been scheduled to take place on Saturday 24th April, 2021 at the TETFUND Hall, beside Drawing Room, South Campus of The Polytechnic, Ibadan by 12p.m prompt.
This was contained in a statement issued by Wole Adedoyin in Ibadan on Thursday.
Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.

According to Adedoyin, “April 10th of this year marks 90 years since the Late Khalil Gibran left this world. In order to celebrate 90 years of great impacts made by him and his numerous works, Khalil Gibran Society will be exhibiting twenty five of his paintings at the April book reading of the Ibadan Book Club. Also Khalil Gibran Poetry Art Anthology is currently undergoing editing and will be made available to the public in the middle of May of this year.

Kahlil Gibran was the key figure in a Romantic movement that transformed Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century. One of his books titled “The Prophet” provides timeless spiritual wisdom on a range of subjects, including giving, eating and drinking, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, teaching, time, pleasure, religion, death, beauty and friendship. Corresponding to each chapter are evocative drawings by Gibran himself.

Gibran explored literary forms as diverse as "poetry, parables, fragments of conversation, short stories, fables, political essays, letters, and aphorisms.